Which likely wouldn't happen because it's not like someone who gets a profitable contract from the Federal government, retools their factory, isn't going to then try and squeeze as much production out of that as they can anyway.
Is there a RCT showing masks don't help (or better yet, are actively harmful) against respiratory illnesses spread via droplet? Do you have an explanation for why healthcare workers have "droplet precautions" that require masks when dealing with, for example, flu patients?
You're posting something supporting mask usage.
"Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection". Somehow turning that into "masks bad" because it's a low certainty finding (inviting further study to confirm) is silly bullshit.
"low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"
Here's the bit you need to pay more attention to: "the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"
But, again, feel free to link to any of your preferred research.
"We have a low confidence finding that masks work" is not the "high confidence finding masks don't work!" you seem to think it is.
> But, again, feel free to link to any of your preferred research.
I mean, I'd probably just link the one you did, as it supports my point here.
This still happened, though. All the stores that sold masks to consumers sold out, very rapidly, at the same time the Surgeon General was tweeting that they didn't work.
They should've ordered they be pulled from sale, not lied about their efficacy.