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Our understanding of this new virus is evolving, and guidelines change with that. The medical establishment currently recommends wearing masks so your response
by pm90 6y ago
Our understanding of this new virus is evolving, and guidelines change with that. The medical establishment currently recommends wearing masks so your response is to not wear masks out of spite? Out of protest? Wtf are you protesting?
- kazinator 6y agoThe claim back in March, 2020 was that there is no evidence that masks are effective, at all, against the spread of infectious diseases. (You may choose to wear one, if it makes you feel better. Make sure it's an ad hoc home-made one, to save the real ones for medical practitioners; but remember, that those are not known to work, either). The backpedaling with respect to masks is not due to changes in our understanding of the virus, whatsoever.
- pm90 6y ago> 2020 was that there is no evidence that masks are effective, at all, against the spread of infectious diseases. No. The claim was that masks were effective only when used by trained hospital personnel, which is still true. It was not clear if they would be effective when used by non trained hospital staff, and it was also not clear if non n95 masks (like cloth masks) would be effective at all. Once it was determined that they were effective, the advisory was changed to reflect that. There was no backpedaling, only an increase in understanding which resulted in an update to guidance.