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Sometimes, "not recommended" is used as an euphemism for "bad for you". As in "Alcohol is generally not recommended for people who take certain prescription dru

• scoutt 6y ago
  "initially not recommended to the general public so that first responders wouldn’t feel the strain of a shortage of PPE." To me, that doesn't sound as "bad for you". Maybe if "not recommended" is taken out of context (and extrapolating that into "not recommended because masks don't work"). It's still not a lie, as far as I can tell.
  • ghaff 6y ago
    What a lot of people would like to have heard in retrospect is something like the following even if a bit sugar-coated: N95 masks are strongly believed to help but do not buy them. Save them for health care workers. We do encourage you to wear bandanas, gaiters/buffs, homemade cloth masks, or other non-medical PPEs. They are of unknown efficacy but they can't hurt. But don't buy N95s. Which a lot of people would have heard as: You really should be wearing N95 masks and others won't do you much if any good but we need to save them for the important people. (At which point, a lot of people would have been F this and tried to buy N95 masks for their own protection.)