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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And when the health care workers die, who is going to take care of Sue?
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You understand basic math? If Sue doesn't wear a mask as soon as possible, more healthcare workers are going to die. I don't know how many times I can explain the basic issue.
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I think we are all confusing the stances here.
@zeynep I believe you agree that during this shortage supplies should go to HC workers first, and once that is covered we must continue working rapidly towards necessary universal usage? If so I think we all agree on that.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
We need to put masks out today, though. Transition will require distributing some today plus reuse plus homemade. Saving next week's supply means that we need much much more next week. It's very tricky as a transition, hence the need for sensible and believable guidance.
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