1. So much of the mistrust swirling around mask recommendations from WHO and other authorities seems to have arisen out of confusion between receiver protection (your mask protects you from others) and source control (your mask protects others from you).
It was well intentioned, and the criteria for healthcare workers are more strict; if one of them gets sick the harm is much larger than for the average person. It's easy for people to get carried away and try to give general health advice, especially when they work in medicine.
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Besides describing the resources wasted on a piece of equipment that clearly should have been updated ages ago, the thread is fundamentally misinformed. One YouTube video absolutely fixes the loathsome "I guarantee you don't know how to use it". This is how information works now.
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The problem is not that it's hard to figure out the external and internal incentives of other people, but it can be hard for us to imagine what it's like to act on different incentives, too. Most of us are partially run by memes that try to propagate into the minds of others.
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