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> “we need to preserve masks for the medical community” To be fair, I remember looking it up on the CDC website when this all started, and they explicitly stat
by monkpit 6y ago
> “we need to preserve masks for the medical community”
To be fair, I remember looking it up on the CDC website when this all started, and they explicitly stated any masks are not necessary (or useful) unless you are caring for a sick patient.
- Tomte 6y agoThat's exactly what I wrote: the working assumption was that you wouldn't be contagious (because then you'd be staying at home yourself). That turned out to be wrong. Later.
- blub 6y agoGiven that this assumption doesn't work with something as banal and common place as the flu... why would it apply to a new respiratory virus, especially since people were anyways coming down with colds and the flu and had no clue what they had.