The fact that hospital workers were desperate for masks, to the extent that they were making their own out of household materials when they couldn't get real on

The fact that hospital workers were desperate for masks, to the extent that they were making their own out of household materials when they couldn't get real ones, tells you all you need to know. Anyone with a brain cell in their head could see that the government's messaging on masks made no sense. This reduced public trust in the government's other public health announcements.