I should specify that I’m referring to the public health authorities in the United States and our public intellectuals, not the medical system writ large, let alone the many people in East Asia who looked at this policy with incredulity
I said pretty clearly what I meant upthread: near universal consensus by US public health authorities, science journalists and commentariat.
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Leaving aside your faux outrage, the point I took from Matt’s claim at the top was that the US medical community writ large did not have an effective way to counter bad advice from public health authorities, who obviously DID have effective ways to communicate (bad advice.)
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The medical community did indeed have a great deal of evidence in favor of mask wearing, and if you’d sat down with any of the authors of mask studies to discuss it, you might have gotten it. But it was not breaking through into the mass consciousness.
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