Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds

Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ve basically known it since germ theory, or maybe before. Still, it doesn’t hurt to have the study to point crazy people to. They won’t believe it, but it at least ensure anyone else reading might not trust them.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remember when early in the pandemic the news and the CDC was saying masks won’t help?

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    • barrbaric@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, they lied to people in an attempt to save the supply of masks for people in health care because there weren’t enough stockpiled. And they wonder why people don’t trust them anymore.

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      • Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No…

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember it as saying they won’t be perfect and won’t help enough, and also that people in critical positions (Healthcare specifically) needed them and the supply was limited. I don’t think I ever heard from an official source that they wouldn’t help, but I’ve heard many people say they said that.

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      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here is an overview of how the government’s recommendations changed over time. They were explicitly advising against wearing face masks. Ex:

        U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams tweets that wearing a face mask will not prevent the public from contracting the novel coronavirus.

        “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” he wrote in a tweet that was later deleted. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus

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