It's important not just to remember this (the incorrect guidance on masks) but to study and understand it. When I wrote my "masks work" op-ed on March 17 for the New York Times, I honestly thought I was likely ending my career as a public writer. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1261994903007113216 …
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There was a period where people were assuming that was the real explanation for the previous guidance, which was "masks don't help for ordinary people". (It wasn't, to be clear. The real reason for the skepticism was wholly irrational, 'I don't know and it sounds weird', junk.)
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CDC, WHO, the Surgeon General, and several physicians on Twitter all claimed masks were ineffective for the public. It was a mind-blowing claim & obv false to many in healthcare. IMO, CDC & WHO were afraid of a mask shortage but SG admitted he wasn’t aware of asymp transmission.
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There were/are at least 3 reasons: 1) little or no benefit to either party 2) leads to riskier behavior 3) some enhanced risk from concentrating/touching/bringing inside https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ …
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CDC's "Masks and gloves don't work and produce a false sense of security" was being deployed by grocery store corporate & mgmt to justify forbidding their workers from donning them in mid-March. With a healthy dose of "Masks and gloves on workers will scare customers."
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There were a number of reasons for the initial CDC guidance, the PPE shortage was one of them. Also the issue of people no longer social distancing or not handling the masks properly. There were also plenty of reports at the beginning of April about why that changed.
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In Australia the Federal and State governments still don't recommend masks for people unless they are in healthcare or are forced to work in close proximity to others; they are concerned that mask wearers might think that social distancing is not necessary while wearing them.
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