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Re:US considers cloth face masks for the public by marnett on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:23PM (#22753149)
People needed to be indoors and locked down before they could be told masks work and should be homemade. Coming out and saying they work and are critical to prevent spread would have resulted in videos much scarier than someone fighting an old woman for toilet paper.

> It feels like now the population has been taught to not wear masks and it’ll be an uphill battle to reverse that.

No masks is already the US status quo. In the same way propaganda told people not to buy them, they will be told to wear them and how to make them at home. It’s a pretty easy reversal when the message is demanded to be broadcast through all mediums.

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Re:US considers cloth face masks for the public by calmworm on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:24PM (#22755682)
Agreed. This could likely be accomplished with a single tweet even. We might have 40% compliance overnight.

Why is this not being broadcast from all possible media outlets? “Stay at home. If you just absolutely go out, wear a mask.” It’s really that simple.

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Re:US considers cloth face masks for the public by marnett on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:31PM (#22755981)
It will be, but you need the whole nation on lockdown before the national zeitgeist can shift that drastically. Some states just began their shelter in place today (for example Florida and Georgia).
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