Has it ever occurred to you that there just isn't enough evidence to decide? The over certainty of some of the covid social media influencers drives me crazy. I guess you don't get a lot of followers when you say "we just don't know yet."
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The amount of money and effort spent doing incorrect mitigations like plexiglass that can increase infections when HEPA filters never sell out? When there's been no official effort to help people avoid the flood of counterfeit N95s? Nobody is upset because of personal obsession.
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I do get upset when people think this is some minor obsession. It's about explaining the correct transmission mechanism, that it is airborne understood correctly, so people can better protect themselves, and we can do the best possible mitigations with our limited resources.
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Yes - it's a collective failure of all our governments to not say clearly "now we know more, those measures we told you to do early 2020 aren't enough".https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1471771661833756675?t=PVmYlGTYowWZ4tjPzaSG_g&s=19 …
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This is not necessarily because people don't understand. It's because a significant minority of the pop. do not care. They don't think COVID is a problem worth their time and effort (e.g., wearing a better, but more uncomfortable mask; opening windows when it's cold outside).
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Yes, N95 is better. But telling people their surgical masks or the type Dr Kuppalli was using are useless is wrong (not to mention rude). Also, I see plenty of people wearing masks below the nose. It's not because they didn't read your column but because masks are uncomfortable.
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The Surgeon Genera is MIA. This is literally his job: communicating public health issues.
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Pet peeve of mine: certain risk groups should just wear vented elastomeric respirators. "If we all wear a mask we protect each other" never worked, not with shitty masks, not with low compliance. Give people at high risk masks that make sure they don't get it.
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N95 aren't even the best mask you can wear. P100 elastomeric _is_ among the best. There now even exist non-vented versions.
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The home health aids that care for my mother in her assisted living facility are *required* to wear company-issued surgical masks and are not allowed to wear N95 respirators which drives me crazy. What the public *believes to be* best approach really matters.
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I'm good, thanks. Similarly, MDs on WHO committees *yelled* at the aerosol scientists on this thread, but time has spoken there as well. Not everyone with degrees can do good science.