It appears in WaPo’s history blog, called Retropolis. It gives no medical advice. And John M. Barry is no random historian saying something in a throwaway manner. Look him up.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1245741446583455746 …
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There's a responsible way to write all that though it's not even clear at all "masks were useless"—a lot of science since on which ones work better, and some of the 1918 ones did and many (without clear understanding of size of viral particles/using gauze) did not. But it's 2020!
I'm outraged by the clickbait given the situation! The sentence in the (great) book is not really an attestation about the efficacy of the masks based on some study. It's a paragraph about the futility of the moment. We are not similarly helpless, except when we are misinformed.
Point to the part in the article that says we are similarly helpless. You’re making massive jumps to conclusions the article does not make.
Yes. It is 2020. No one is confused about that.
This story is about 1918, and says so in the headline. Because the history blog is about history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/ …
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