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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Replying to @cpm5280 @waltshaub and
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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Universal mask wearing is the best scenario without a doubt. But that’s not possible right now. How do you decide whether a mask goes to a nurse working the ER or to Whole Foods Sue? That nurse going to work DAILY is likely interacting with more non infected people than Sue, no?
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Replying to @NKinNewEng @Nk_prof and
Sue is asymptomatic. Countless of them. How do you get them all food? Okay, Sue works at the checkout at Whole Foods. Everyone stays home? 100 percent of population? One mask for Sue today is 20 fewer intubations (full PPE, not just one mask) in a few weeks.
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People have to shop, and this is the realistic scenario. The name doesn't matter, duh. We need masks or everyone who needs to go out. (Look up "asymptomatic spread" and sars-cov-2. Lots of papers! Might help you understand! Good luck!)
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