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The public health experts didn't say "Masks don't work", otherwise there wouldn't have been such an issue to getting masks to health care workers. There also w
by birken 6y ago
The public health experts didn't say "Masks don't work", otherwise there wouldn't have been such an issue to getting masks to health care workers.
There also was a very robust debate at the time about whether masks worked or not, and which types of masks worked, hence why lots of researchers immediately started to study these issues.
I'm not saying there wasn't incorrect information out there, but it wasn't nearly as binary as you are making it out to be.
- renewiltord 6y agoHere is a public health authority saying "Masks don't work" https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321... I'll quote it for you: (but read it in its entirety if you want the whole thing, it's only one Tweet) > They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus... There is no nuance in that statement (I did not capitalize the 'NOT'. It comes capitalized already).