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The problem is they lost all credibility with the public for that very obvious deception.

• NikolaNovak 5y ago
  Which deception? I did not indicate one in my post so reference to " that very obvious deception" is not clear to me. note: "Evolving understanding/new facts" or "new/differing priorities" are not the same as "deception" to me. e.g.: * Thinking A and Saying A; then changing mind and Thinking B and Saying B; are not a deception * Saying "Because of X, A"; then later "Because of Y, B", because Y became more important than X, is also not deception to me * Thinking A but Saying B is a deception to me (for reasons and intents that I may or may not agree with)
  • ziml77 5y ago
    I'm with you. To me, it was pretty clear why they were making recommendations in the way that they did. There was no secret about why they wanted to limit the supply of masks going to the public at the start of the pandemic. They didn't know for sure how it spread, but they did know that the most important places to have masks were the hospitals. You need to be extraordinarily cautious there because every hospital worker that gets sick reduces the number of people available to deal with patients (and adds another patient). There was also concern about face touching if people not used to masks started wearing them, but I only recall seeing that being a concern when it came to sending children to school with masks. Once the mask supply was able to meet demand and after they were reasonably certain it would protect against the spread of the virus, they adjusted their recommendations accordingly. None of that is deceptive.