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Which is crazy, because in March the U.S. was shipping more masks overseas than at any point in the past decade[1], masks started getting recommended while ther
by throwaway062820 6y ago
Which is crazy, because in March the U.S. was shipping more masks overseas than at any point in the past decade[1], masks started getting recommended while there still was a PPE shortage, and after masks were recommended it seems like very few were N95 masks. So why were leaders at the time discouraging Americans from even wearing homemade cloth masks?
It's hard to tell whether or not they were lying to us at the time in order to pursue a poorly thought out strategy or if they're lying to us now to defend their poor decisions (I'm guessing the latter).
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/05/08/u-s-companies-kept-shipping-masks-overseas-despite-warnings/3090505001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/05/0...
- Threeve303 6y agoIt's difficult not to get cynical and conspiratorial when looking at the combination of political changes in the U.S., racial conflict, and the populations hit hardest by covid. Things like ventilators being confiscated and disinformation campaigns (hydroxychloroquine), preventing mail in voting, etc.. all seem very strange additions to the pandemic. Then you have social media driven protests where large numbers of the populations hardest hit by covid are rightfully protesting police brutality. The flip side of this is that hopefully these protests were not less than organic with the intent to spread the virus among the protesters. The total numbers of people dead are awful now, especially among the hardest hit populations. What's it going to look like if this doesn't stop in another year or two?