We don’t need to. There was a consensus as of that date.
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Perry, you know better than this. A few papers does not == consensus. That's not how it works.
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But there was already a consensus. Really. And there was for a long time. This is why so many countries in the far east were using masks for the general public at tge start of this, and why even in our country, PPE is routinely given to hospital workers.
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I am quite serious in stating that what happened was that many public health officials were worried that masks would be hoarded if people knew that they were effective. I’m not joking, and the evidence for it is widely available. This is not some crazy conspiracy theory.
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Yes, there are many such public statements. It’s not in serious dispute. What’s remarkable is how profoundly bad the long term effects of this fib have been.
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I'm not defending it (because I believe we're better served by truth), but if there's as shortage of PPE, it may well have been a better overall outcome to ration it for healthcare workers, at risk people, etc, and ask the rest of us to stay home and distance. Complex calculus.
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In particular, healthcare workers can't usually stay 6-10 feet away from the people they're treating.
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But again, I want experts and their orgs to tell the truth, even when that might hurt some larger and valid immediate goal (like ensuring availability of PPE for those who need it most).
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Brett Valle Retweeted zeynep tufekci
There was discussion in March on this topic, e.g.,https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1240718146434195458?s=20 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepOne of the worst mistakes that CDC and WHO made has been to stigmatize mask wearing instead of telling nations to quickly seize N95 supply for health-care workers, distribute extras in sensible numbers, ramp up production everywhere, distribute surgical masks and let us mask up.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
That Washington Post story was evidence free and ridiculous. It portrayed universally mask wearing Asian people as superstitious. Yes, CDC was wrong but journalists should have done better in my view. The Asian experts who recommended masks are experts, not superstitious randos.
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There was a transition in the coverage and recommendations around that time (N95 vs cloth masks, etc) https://www.nap.edu/read/11637/chapter/6#62 …
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I believe the concern was with respect to the effectiveness of non-N95 masks ('The committee is concerned that their use may give users a false sense of protection that will encourage risk taking and/or decrease attention to other hygiene measures.')
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