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for me it was always clear that masks were effective, but institutions were trying to accumulate enough for health workers by flat out lying to the public. mayb
by zaptheimpaler 6y ago
for me it was always clear that masks were effective, but institutions were trying to accumulate enough for health workers by flat out lying to the public. maybe they shouldn’t have lied so blatantly, but it doesn’t make me skeptical about the effectiveness of masks itself.
- PapaSpaceDelta 6y agoMy impression was that during the early stages there was more concern about touch based transmission, so there was a feeling that the benefits of masks (trapping respiratory droplets) might be outweighed by causing people to touch their faces more frequently.