Yep. That's why we can't just say "wear masks only if you're sick." Besides the fact that we're not testing enough so people can't know if they're sick, and that many can be infectious without any symptomps, it just creates a stigma around wearing a mask. https://twitter.com/NathanWomack_/status/1240071568421609473 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Scott Gottlieb, MD
Please read this whole thread. We are eventually going to have to release people from lockdown, and universal mask wearing (not N95, but surgical masks) is one way to do it with less harm.https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1240240377052958720 …
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Scott Gottlieb, MDVerified account @ScottGottliebMDTHREAD: If the concern is that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic younger Americans (millennials) are continuing to spread#Coronavirus because they don't heed warnings, you could require anyone between certain ages to wear a procedure mask when they go out. 1/nShow this thread6 replies 117 retweets 363 likesShow this thread -
Folks don't @ me BUT do it: arrange locally to allow people to donate N95 masks to hospitals, maybe exchange with surgical masks. Hospitals are out of N95s; CDC is telling them to use surgical masks instead; people are sitting on N95s but hearing some willing to donate/exchange.
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Washington Post published another masks are superstition oped, so I’ll just put this here instead. https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1241598924516986881 …
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Also it’s complicated out there, when misinformation is top down. Just yesterday I watched a misinformation expert stubbornly and deeply misinform people on masks! (Well-meaning! Just can’t wrap mind around what’s going on.) Many things are going to emerge from this very changed.
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I'm not usually stupid, but I briefly believed that they were harder to use correctly than they are, because I started prepping when they were hard to find and expensive (but not impossible). I decided to leave them for healthcare pros and high-risk folks, who needed them more.
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Anyway, except for face masks I was fully prepped and ready to shelter in place before hand sanitizer was gone, and had cancelled my visit to high-risk family in Seattle (omg SeaTac), in part because of your article and posts. Thank you.
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That makes my day! YEAY. So many people have told me they cancelled travel/prepared because of that Scientific American piece. To be honest, I was a bit ambivalent, kept waiting for our medical authorities to tell us the truth and warn us and for the media to carry the message.
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It just sucks to be on our own like this. Take care! (Also even home-made masks are better than nothing but right now, we can just isolate... And hopefully that shortage, too, will pass).
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Yes. Do you have a good source for whether solitary walks with appropriate social distance are or will become a problem? Currently it's hard to find reliable info -- it's mostly either blanket, shamey "stay inside" or "yolo flu" stuff. So far I've been walking, but I can stop.
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Solitary walks with appropriate distance are great! I wouldn't go to crowded places especially as we don't have universal mask wearing. We need people's immune system up, and fresh air, sunshine, exercise... All good. In dense cities, they may need to allocate hours, eventually.
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It just sucks, we have these extreme shaming instructions, which end up with everyone ignoring the sensible part of the thing. It's like we learned nothing from abstinence education. It just leads to more zero-protection sex.
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Yes. Though I'm more irritated at high-visibility twitter accounts being borderline abusive about "stay home you evil person trying to kill me and my family and all the healthcare workers and grocery store clerks." Being told I'm _trying to kill people_ makes me really resistant!
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