Please don’t pile on but do read this honest thread from a Vox journalist who warned her family but didn’t feel comfortable sounding the alarm publicly. The public message was to falsely reassure. This kind of reflection is important—and hard. Thank you!https://twitter.com/kelseytuoc/status/1243301678301888512 …
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@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?Show this thread -
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
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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 …
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This is bad sourcing maybe, but every documentary or history article I've read points out that no one realized how tiny virus particles were vs. the size of the gauze weave.
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Covering your face certainly helps protect against droplet transmission as long as the droplets are a certain size. But let's not pretend either that they can be a proper replacement for social distancing.
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that photo was also used in this article https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask …
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1918 ordinances "failed" not because masks did not work but because of poor compliance and the fact that they were implemented too late and sometimes in an unconstitutional way (illicitly exempting groups). The failure had, in other words, nothing to do with the masks per se.
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This article is not as bad as you think. People are difficult to manage (tobacco chewers example) and business incentives are harder still (movie theater charging more to ppl without a mask, but letting them in).
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