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 1 year agoRemember when early in the pandemic the news and the CDC was saying masks won’t help?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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
barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 year 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.
Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 1 year ago
No…
barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 1 year ago
Thier motivations. The CDC was in a scramble and early theories were contradictions of one another.
Level one medical masks will not prevent you from getting COVID.
The CDC recommended everyone to wear level one and then eventually level two masks to prevent the spread to others.
It was around the time that a lot of people were asymptomatic carries of the virus and was spreading it.
There was an initial issue with getting masks for hosiptals but it was mainly supply chain issues. China was fairly quickly able to adapt to the changes.
Hand sanitizer was the biggest issue. Everyone was buying that up right away.