It's far easier not to touch your face when you're wearing a mask, so I don't get why the American guidance continues to be not to do it. Even a cloth reusable mask helps with it (and is a visible social signal)
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The current messaging (don't buy masks, because you totally don't need them, but medical professionals desperately need them and there's a shortage, even though we promise they won't help you at all!) is not really tenable or realistic about human psychology.
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Medical professionals use them properly and get the benefit. Average dumbass doesn't. (This taken from a thread by a medic about N95 masks.)
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She did not call people dumbasses, that's on me.
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Still, I'd like to see how it was phrased. (FWIW I think it's terrible messaging designed to backfire).
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Been railing against this for a while guess should write longer finally.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1234113514354225152 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepCan't imagine a worse way to handle the mask situation to simultaneously tell people they don't need masks *and* that health-care workers very much need masks so people shouldn't buy them. People aren't idiots. It's the age of mistrust already. Truth and transparency work better.Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
I agree there's a kind of contradiction there, would like to see your take. I know nothing about viruses but a bit about communications.
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Also telling people they will do it wrong is even worse then telling them the masks only magically protect health care workers. Yeah, will get to writing.
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The masks also help in unrelated ways (barrier to face touching, reminder to be in "virus awareness mode" if you don't normally wear one, social signal). The guidance seems too narrowly focused on the filtering ability of the mask, not its other uses
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Also you feel stuffy and uncomfortable, so a great incentive to limit time spent out of the house
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Right. We don’t always need masks to be full day protection. Most ppl can get by with short time periods in high congestion areas (shopping, public transit). Places where you just cannot stay 6ft away from everyone.
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