I honestly think we need a nationwide public education campaign to help people understand why they should stop buying masks to wear to run errands. You’re not helping anyone, including yourself, by doing that, & you’re contributing to a critical shortage among healthcare workers.
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We need to be messaging "wear bandanas / homemade masks when you go for those 100% necessary errands." We all should be wearing them and given shortage all the N95 should be in hands of healthcare workers.
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The best suggestion I have heard is swapping surgical masks for N95 masks—to convince people who may be holding on to N95 masks which clearly the health care workers need so much more at this point.
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I wore N95s at work regularly for years, there is no learning curve to them. But those need to be reserved entirely for healthcare & emergency workers, and the rest of us can wear homemade cotton ones –which are absolutely better than none– & practice social-distancing.
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I think you're vastly underestimating the difficulties of rapidly teaching a large population to wear something over their mouth & nose that they've worn before -- w/o touching it when it becomes uncomfortable. The Lancet, among others, acknowledges this.https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1241498781457285120?s=20 …
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First, the evidence supports it. Second, they have no issues with this alleged "incorrect mask wearing threat" in all the universal mask countries. If we can teach people how to wash their hands properly, we can teach them to wear masks better. (Washing hands properly is harder).
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