Three shots and a chaser. @voxdotcom journalists spent January and February telling you not to wear masks (and that there would be no pandemic!) while buying out the stock.pic.twitter.com/iNTcUbk6Un
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Incidentally, here's how Vox apologized for its January 31 tweet (which I posted upthread) unequivocally stating there would be no pandemic.pic.twitter.com/4KHI7c2I43
Pretty great chutzpah from Vox today, who did more than most media outlets to muddy the water on mask usepic.twitter.com/JCkF4lJG2c
I feel bad of accusing Vox of chutzpah a few days ago, before getting this email that redefines the word. We ran out of ads; please give us money so we can continue our misleading coverage of this disaster.pic.twitter.com/yRS4DEGJ5L
They missed the point in the most self-centered individualistic American way possible, really 


One of our scientists put it in a good way: masks might help with spreading. However, if people start hoarding them like with toilet paper, it might generate problems for hospitals as the prices will skyrocket.
Which is exactly what happened, because the public health strategy of lying to people about efficacy backfired
This is simply not accurate. Even common masks help prevent airborne droplet infection. See 4-5m transmission case from bus in Wuhan, whose authors wrote “our advice is to wear a face mask all the way" https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coronavirus-can-travel-twice-far-official-safe-distance-and-stay …
Yes, even the official advice in the US is moving slowly towards mandatory mask wearing. But it should have happened three months ago, and journalists helped spread the misinformation about masks for too long.
"Why didn't Vox simply ignore the CDC and WHO's guidance on masks" kind of seems to be burying the lead about who the public should be upset at.
The job of journalism is not to uncritically repeat what people in authority tell you. Clearly Yglesias at least was skeptical about this advice, since he bought masks, but that skepticism didn't translate into journalism.
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