Also not only is there no evidence for this claim, there is emerging evidence for the opposite, and there is decades of evidence from other safety devices that this concern is not warranted, and if this was a thing, it would also apply to hand-washing.
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Here's a preprint of a paper (I'm a co-author) where we review the "false sense of security" claim and explain why it doesn't stand to evidence at all, and why, on the contrary, universal masks would be expected to lessen stigma and heighten solidarity. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2 …pic.twitter.com/2tDzvYGNVr
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If some past person had told me I'd spend most of my energy in the first months of a pandemic arguing against CDC and WHO guidelines, that they would drag their feet despite mounting evidence, and that we'd rely on grassroots movements instead, I'd have dismissed them as nuts.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Babak Javid
I've been arguing for months that the most likely outcome of masks would be INCREASED adherence to distancing—because that's what social science suggests. That baseless "false sense of security" claim had no evidence for it. Now, experimental confirmation.https://twitter.com/Babak_Javid_Lab/status/1269312406120996864 …
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Babak Javid @javid_labThis is a cool study! Masks/goggles increase social/physical distancing by OTHERS to wearer: as measured by remote sensing technology! Doesn't tackle the straw man 'masks make wearers more reckless', but suggests even ineffective masks may protect by increasing physical distances https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1269308838110302209 …18 replies 246 retweets 738 likesShow this thread -
So Dr. Fauci has just said the public was told not to wear masks because they "were in very short supply." I just want to remind everyone what it was like in March—viral threads telling us not to wear masks. (Not picking on one person here—she was misled like everyone else).pic.twitter.com/SEYKHgmYtI
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How we got here: we were told that masks increased wearer's risk compared to no masks—and many experts and media parroted this uncritically despite absolute lack of evidence for this. And I could point to asymptomatic transmission in mid-March because there were already papers.pic.twitter.com/A4URiLQ8Qq
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Don't focus on any one person! This was practically the entire ecology in March with authorities telling us masks were a risk and unnecessary—instead of the truth: shortage—and "experts"/media parroting them uncritically instead of looking at actual research or Asian expertise.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dean S
Of course! I wrote this, too, when people said "what about the shortages"? First, ramp up production then! Second, cloth masks are good for now. Third, each intubation requires tons of PPE! Every reduced case prevents deaths *and* helps the shortage. https://twitter.com/DinoStraciatela/status/1272520255659823107 …?
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dr. Morgenstern, #COVID19 Research & NYC Physician
Once again, Dr. Fauci says that they did not advise masks earlier because "there was a paucity of equipment that our healthcare workers required." But we were told masks were unnecessary, even harmful. They forgot "a pandemic is a communication emergency".https://twitter.com/i/status/1275522333428645890 …
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0:46Dr. Morgenstern, #COVID19 Research & NYC Physician @drmikeny#Fauci says he doesn't regret not advising people to wear#facemasks because there was a shortage for#healthcareworkers. Should have asked if#fauci regrets advising that#facemasks don't work which undermined credibility when#CDC later asked people to wear them. pic.twitter.com/sqQsQGnkbX9 replies 31 retweets 104 likesShow this thread -
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I don't live in the same universe as this CNN correspondent. Dr. Fauci admits they didn't recommend masks before—and even said they may harm, don't work—because of the shortage, and that's sign of a "best communicator? No, no, that's how you lose trust. https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1275491561405546498 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeremy Howard
Could some *actual* reporters dig into that, and also this?https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1275792716941549568 …
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Even under this warped logic, they could have said “put a scarf or a tshirt or a coffee filter or virtually anything over your nose and mouth until we can be certain our frontline medical workers have adequate protection”
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