It's hard to attribute the same charity to the WHO. They were dragged kicking and screaming to mask recommendation and this happened many, many months into the

It's hard to attribute the same charity to the WHO. They were dragged kicking and screaming to mask recommendation and this happened many, many months into the pandemic, well after any concerns of mask shortages were alleviated. I see your point about the CDC. But they should've recommended home made masks. Other countries did that. They messed up big time. It's impossible to know the counterfactual with perfect confidence, but we can make a sound judgement given what we know.