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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Gillian Brockell Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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 …
Gillian Brockell added,
Actually, the book is great and I know the historian. I've read a lot of history books on the topic. Fan of that particular one. The sentence in question (which I've read) is in the context that epidemic spread, it's not some proof "masks are useless" and it's clickbait.
Publishing a piece with that title in the middle of a deadly pandemic with a raging debate about masks where the science is clear and the question is how to move fast to cut deaths is irresponsible clickbait. I think that's what is clear.
The science is not clear. In fact, one of the things CDC is worried about is if they tell people to wear masks, it will create a false sense of security and people will let up on other very necessary social-distancing measures. Which happened in 1918. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/cdc-considering-recommending-general-public-wear-face-coverings-in-public/2020/03/30/6a3e495c-7280-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html …
It would have been irresponsible not to include that the masks didn’t work. For all the myriad reasons mentioned in the article, ie cigarette flaps! Movie theater giveaways!
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.
I disagree, and it's clear why that article got published today and with that title.
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