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Because the CDC said to not wear masks when this whole forum was citing papers and screaming that we should wear masks and wtf is the CDC doing?

redis_mlc 6y ago
And WHO. And Fauci. And Oxford. And usually they doubled down when it was found out they were wrong. The only person I know of who is facing any kind of accountability is Gov. Newsom, who will very likely face a recall vote over destroying the Calif. economy while taking federal funds and flouting the lockdown he himself ordered. His ambition to run for US President dims as each day goes by.
jryb 6y ago
The rationale that they gave at the time was that they feared people would buy up all the masks leaving hospitals undersupplied, and that people would think that wearing a mask meant that you wouldn't also need to distance yourself from others.
- yostrovs 6y ago
  At the time, the rationale given was that masks don't work. The idea that people would go to Home Depot to buy up all the existing masks was a nonsense excuse later provided, since hospitals have their own supply mechanisms. Hoarding of toilet paper by the public did not cause a toilet paper shortage within hospitals.
- reducesuffering 6y ago
  I'll let the US Surgeon General's words speak for themselves. Note that he has since deleted his tweet; I wonder why? "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9 https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9" — U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020[0] Deleted tweet[1] [0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus-surgeon-general-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus... [1]https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1233725785283932160 https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...

redis_mlc 6y ago

And WHO. And Fauci. And Oxford. And usually they doubled down when it was found out they were wrong. The only person I know of who is facing any kind of accountability is Gov. Newsom, who will very likely face a recall vote over destroying the Calif. economy while taking federal funds and flouting the lockdown he himself ordered. His ambition to run for US President dims as each day goes by.

jryb 6y ago

The rationale that they gave at the time was that they feared people would buy up all the masks leaving hospitals undersupplied, and that people would think that wearing a mask meant that you wouldn't also need to distance yourself from others.

yostrovs 6y ago
At the time, the rationale given was that masks don't work. The idea that people would go to Home Depot to buy up all the existing masks was a nonsense excuse later provided, since hospitals have their own supply mechanisms. Hoarding of toilet paper by the public did not cause a toilet paper shortage within hospitals.
reducesuffering 6y ago
I'll let the US Surgeon General's words speak for themselves. Note that he has since deleted his tweet; I wonder why? "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9 https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9" — U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020[0] Deleted tweet[1] [0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus-surgeon-general-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus... [1]https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1233725785283932160 https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...