>Yes please. I'll be pretty grumpy if my care providers were misinformed or worse. The evidence is plain. Masks work and they save lives. This has been an unfo

>Yes please. I'll be pretty grumpy if my care providers were misinformed or worse. The evidence is plain. Masks work and they save lives. This has been an unfortunate misinformation campaign that they don't. The intention was to save masks for healthcare workers but it failed at that for a number of reasons. https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44313 https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44313 Also, keep in mind that whether they work at preventing the spread of corona is a very different question than whether a doctor would recommend them to an immunocompromised person in X situation. So it's hard for me to say if your doctor was wrong without knowing precisely what she said. >For 30 minutes. The concern has always been that laypersons wouldn't understand the limitations and risks. Masks don't stop working after 30 minutes. Laypersons don't understand the full risks inherent in using condoms, but we don't tell them not to use condoms. We do educate them. Masks do not provide perfect protection for any length of time. But we're not trying to obtain perfect protection. We're trying to do 1% better than the alternative course of action. (Even procedure masks, by the way, do much more than 1%, which is why it's important for everyone to wear them). >You just wrote that govt didn't stockpile enough masks. I meant I'm curious to see which other 10 things are more important than a massive misinformation campaign about masks that will cost thousands of lives. What are the other 10? >Well, ya. If WHO, CDC, White House, or whomever, flat out lied, even by omission, then pile on. They did, and I am.