"Masks don't work for a highly infectious respiratory illness, but also please save them for health workers so they don't get sick" is a pretty dark calibration re: Just Exactly How Stupid Do You Think We Are
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This is a misconception If you spend all day within 6 feet of infected people masks are very effective. But you also need to combine them with biohazard suits and face shields. Use of a mask without the other protective measures in casual contact like shopping is not the same.
If everyone is wearing a mask, you have *two* highly effective layers between every infected respiratory droplet and each potential new host. There are other ways get this and other precautions to take, but this is an incredibly good one.
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I'm not against a universal mask policy, I think that could help. I'm not against someone wearing a mask, it can't hurt! I just dont want to make sure people focus on what I think are the important things - wash hands, don't touch face, consider wearing latex gloves.
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Watching people rub their eyes while wearing a mask out in public makes me want to pull my hair out! hahaha
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Yes. While WHO/CDC were frantically shilling their "masks don't work" to the public, CDC recommended to nurses and doctors to use 1. Source control (put a surgical mask on the patient) and 2. Wear one yourself (RN/MD)
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The NIH agrees with you. If 80% of the population wore masks (even *unfitted* N95 and surgical masks) it would essentially eliminate the outbreak.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30229968/
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@NIH just in case I’m misunderstanding
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Honestly, the concept is just too difficult for low-information, pop culture types. They'll argue all day.
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Masks work.
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No reasonable person with a basic understanding of Virology ever suggested masks don't help at all. There is also a public health dynamic that the layman doesn't understand here. Job duties are also a huge factor. Obviously healthcare workers take priority. How is this hard?
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