> When Western governments lied to get around supply issues (...) I don't know what you interpreted as a lie. What I saw was two updates that sparked advisorie

> When Western governments lied to get around supply issues (...) I don't know what you interpreted as a lie. What I saw was two updates that sparked advisories to curtail surgical mask runs: * the initial WHO position from between late 2019 to early 2020 on the risk of COVID spread, back when COVID was still the Wuhan epidemic and little was known about it, where they quoted Chinese health officials on how the risk of airborne transmission was deemed low. Therefore, based on those observations, surgical masks and gloves were deemed unnecessary. * The updated WHO position around early 2020 after airborne transmissions started to be reported and corroborated by multiple sources which caused a supply crunch of surgical masks and gloves which were putting frontline workers in risk. * a call to the widespread adoption of masks from around mid 2020, whether surgical masks or cloth, when their availability started to not be put into question. Updating advisories based on new data on a developing problem might be seen as flipfloping in politics, but it's not lying or a bad thing.