Comment Comment by darawk The CDC and WHO both at various times recommended against the general public wearing masks.https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/13/21214114/media-coronavi...This advice was wrong. It is not just sick people that benefit from wearing masks. It is not true that people are flattening that into "masks don't work". Masks don't work was repeated many, many times by these organizations.Here's an example:https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-peop...Let's not practice revisionist history here. These organizations were dead wrong, and it had severe consequences for the spread of infection. parent darawk 6 years ago
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/13/21214114/media-coronavi...
This advice was wrong. It is not just sick people that benefit from wearing masks. It is not true that people are flattening that into "masks don't work". Masks don't work was repeated many, many times by these organizations.
Here's an example:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-peop...
Let's not practice revisionist history here. These organizations were dead wrong, and it had severe consequences for the spread of infection.