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
It might be faster to write up the things you haven't been railing against!
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