#2 is an attempted defense of our publicly elected officials lying, supposedly for the greater good. Let’s not start that precedent. I was saying #2 even as it

#2 is an attempted defense of our publicly elected officials lying, supposedly for the greater good. Let’s not start that precedent. I was saying #2 even as it happened, though. To me it was always obvious that masks would provide _some_ protection, just not perfect protection. > As for the masks, they completely ignored other hazards now becoming more well known. The amount of micro-plastics and fibers in the lungs is going to be awful long-term and it gets worse the more we know. As we started to understand the mortality rate from covid, this becomes a good point. During the first couple of months, though, while deaths were still rising exponentially (also corresponding to the time slot where we were told NOT to wear mask), we did not know the real mortality rate. It could have been significantly higher than it turned out to be. Still, during those months, there were not enough of the masks to go around.