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> They could have had an infomercial showing people the most effective cloth mask designs they could sew at home. In fact, eventually they did something like t
by waterhouse 5y ago
> They could have had an infomercial showing people the most effective cloth mask designs they could sew at home.
In fact, eventually they did something like this. The Surgeon General of the United States produced a video showing how one could make a quick-and-dirty mask with a t-shirt and rubber bands... dated April 4 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI1GxNjAjlw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI1GxNjAjlw
- titzer 5y agoExposure matters. I don't think the SG has that many Twitter followers. :) I feel like there was a real missed opportunity for the President to do, well, Presidential things. Like if whoever was President had done a series of prime-time infomercials that had this kind of information. The kind of TV event where literally every major network would carry it live. In my wildest dreams I imagine Carl Sagan as President. Or Mister Rogers. Can you imagine how different the response could have been if a careful communicator and good educator had taken the biggest stage, gave us the straight dope, talked to us like adults and children alike, and made us feel like we were in it together. Instead we had the biggest stooge desperately trying protect his only accomplishment, the record stock market and historically low unemployment from cratering because he was only worried about himself.