That's why I didn't single you out but you realize every single thing you claimed in that viral thread (and I tried to tell you otherwise) was wrong? The alleged increased risk, false sense of security, lack of benefit? Every single claim you made except shortage was 100% wrong.
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Replying to @zeynep @ggreenwald
Just to be clear: Those claims claim from the CDC. And yes, most turned out to be wrong. Also, at the time, there was little (if any) distinction between protecting self vs others. But do we have research from US showing that mask usage doesn’t confer a false sense of security?
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Replying to @RVAwonk @ggreenwald
Yes, they came from the CDC and they were all wrong. That's my point, and I kept trying to talk with people like you to point to the evidence that they were wrong. And for lack of false sense of security? Yes, we have decades of evidence from many other safety devices.
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As I very publicly argued back then, false sense of security is trotted out against every safety device/intervention (seat belts, helmets, safe sex) and has been researched to death. You can find individual examples, but it never overwhelms the safety benefit. But that's not all.
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Also, if it were true, it would just as much apply to hand-washing or even distancing. (But good news, it's not true). Plus, there is all the experience of Asia. Plus, social science suggested that masks would *increase* overall caution. But even that's not all.
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We have since had actual research from this pandemic that shows, unsurprisingly, that the actual result is, as expected, masks increase distancing behaviors (how could they not?). False sense of security for safety devices, to put it politely, is pop psychology.
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There was also no of evidence or even a logical claim for "harms" of mask wearing compared to no masks. Most relevant studies were about health care workers and they compared some masks to other masks. Not ever to no masks. Plus not for egress (PPE is ingress).
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And the asymptomatic transmission? I wrote a NYT op-ed trashing the misleading of the public by the CDC and the WHO in mid-March & I could point to asymptomatic transmission as a key reason because.. well, the research was out! I'm not the only one in the world with eyes, right?pic.twitter.com/xmPpLoTrob
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Again, I am hoping people notice that this isn't "evolving" evidence. We were misled, and badly, and it is a great failure that there wasn't a loud and public push-back. Instead, many, like you, just repeated the CDC (I get it) and people like me were treated like anti-vaxxers.
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To emphasize: it's not about you. It was practically everyone. I never thought I'd spend the first months of a pandemic arguing with people that the CDC & the WHO are wrong. But that's what had to be done because that's where the facts were. The groupthink has been disappointing.
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I highlighted your thread not because you were an outlier but because you were capturing the whole CDC/WHO message back then, and I remembered because I had tried to tell you that it wasn't evidence-based and was dismissed. I do get why but I also think we should reflect./end
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The timing of this could not be better. Just had convo with someone frustrated with conflicting messaging. Maybe I missed this point, but do u think the politicization of CDC caused the problem?
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