From February 1st, me trying to ask people to stop flu comparisons.
(Screenshot, I’m not encouraging pileups here). I’m not blaming individuals, this was a widespread sentiment.pic.twitter.com/3clGIJnVyM
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Your daily irresponsible media failure: clickbait headline from @washingtonpost claiming "masks were useless" in the 1918 flu epidemic based on no research or evidence but one historian saying so in a throwaway manner in a book. Shame on you, @elizamcgraw. Lives are at stake.pic.twitter.com/v4bi8QORUW
So, @elizamcgraw who normally writes about horses finds a casual sentence in a book that was more about how the 1918 epidemic spread and builds a piece around it titled masks "were useless" and it gets published on APRIL 2, 2020 in the middle of a pandemic in the @washingtonpost?
Science and fact-based advocacy has won this argument about masks. Even the United States is likely to join. There is no evidence of harms (it was all speculation), and if something actually comes up, we can address it then because the benefits are clear. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/trump-coronavirus-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/ZdqbLfpikr
Some of this increase may well be due to hospitals being overloaded. As I tried to explain in the piece on top of this thread, and throughout late Jan and February on social media and in articles, *this* is why “but the flu” comparisons were so misplaced. https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1245852365464449025 …
Do you have a suggestion re: homemade masking? I’ve read the Cambridge study and seen the Hong Kong paper towel recommendation. But I’m your opinion, is there a homemade mask/shape/construction that seems best? I plan on making a boatload of them to donate.
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