03-31-2020, 08:16 AM
Why do they have to lie?
<< Opinion, based on no access to inventory numbers, or reports from the CDC>>
If the CDC had recommended we all wear masks 2 or 3 weeks ago, the result would have been mass pandemonium because... not enough masks were available. People would have gone out to stores every day, standing (fighting?) in lines in an attempt to buy them. That reaction would have contradicted the most effective advice available, stay-at-home. Hoarding of masks would have been even more severe, the supply for doctors and nurses even further reduced.
So the CDC choose instead to say masks are not all that effective. In a way that’s correct and not a complete lie when it’s compared with the effectiveness of stay-at-home.
The supply of masks is now increasing by the day and I wouldn’t be surprised if a new protocol is announced, which recommends we wear masks when out in public. If that does happen, and it takes place before cases peak, a large population of non-symptomatic carriers will begin wearing masks along with the rest of us. That may have the greatest impact on reducing the curve, as they’re feeling healthy so are out in public buying groceries, etc. From what I’ve read, trapping the virus with a mask when infected people exhale, is slightly more effective than filtering air as healthy people inhale.
Timing is everything. But if you’re pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you need the rabbit first.
<< Opinion, based on no access to inventory numbers, or reports from the CDC>>
If the CDC had recommended we all wear masks 2 or 3 weeks ago, the result would have been mass pandemonium because... not enough masks were available. People would have gone out to stores every day, standing (fighting?) in lines in an attempt to buy them. That reaction would have contradicted the most effective advice available, stay-at-home. Hoarding of masks would have been even more severe, the supply for doctors and nurses even further reduced.
So the CDC choose instead to say masks are not all that effective. In a way that’s correct and not a complete lie when it’s compared with the effectiveness of stay-at-home.
The supply of masks is now increasing by the day and I wouldn’t be surprised if a new protocol is announced, which recommends we wear masks when out in public. If that does happen, and it takes place before cases peak, a large population of non-symptomatic carriers will begin wearing masks along with the rest of us. That may have the greatest impact on reducing the curve, as they’re feeling healthy so are out in public buying groceries, etc. From what I’ve read, trapping the virus with a mask when infected people exhale, is slightly more effective than filtering air as healthy people inhale.
Timing is everything. But if you’re pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you need the rabbit first.
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