Not wearing masks is exponentially increasing the pileup at the hospitals, putting health care workers more at risk. We can manage the transition through rationing. Everyone would’ve been better off from the start if this had been the recommendation—with rationed distribution.
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They're also dying because more people are infected than needed to have been because of this anti-mask guidance.
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Don't put words into my mouth, thanks. Nobody said anything about equal need. Simply pointing out logic that many of those they're bending over wouldn't be in the hospital in the first place if there had been a careful but concerted effort to get limited masks into public hands.
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Getting masks into the hands of the public once everyone's already carrying the virus is beside the point. Mask efficacy has long been established, prior to this current crisis, was known to work - part of why SK and Japan have better trajectories.
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I get your point, but infecting and killing off portions of our healthcare professionals, leaving a shortage, so Sue can wear a mask to Whole Foods is a worse scenario. There are no good options, but the front line workers fighting this thing should get masks before anyone else.
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Sue infecting 20 more people at Whole Foods who then have to be intubated by healthcare workers who don't even have enough N95s is your scenario, then?
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If Sue is infecting 20 people at Whole Foods then we need a new approach on how we should be performing essential tasks in public. In Italy they are keeping people outside of grocery stores and only letting in a few at a time so that there is minimal risk of spread.
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Well, she is. Before she knows she's sick. There is enormous evidence of asymptomatic spread, including super-spreaders. Even Wuhan, with most drastic quarantine measures, had universal mask wearing. The shortage is a crisis, nobody is ignoring it. Can't be clearer.
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