Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by ericb on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:54PM
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While I agree with your point, there were also anti-maskers during the Spanish Flu, so these anti maskers aren't entirely the fault of the deception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by Someone1234 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:00PM
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I agree that we'd always have some anti-maskers. But the level of it (seemingly mainstream) has been quite problematic (although the tide does seem to be slowly turning).
Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by javert on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:31PM
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Despite my other comment (sibling to this one), I do regret mentioning Republicans and Trump. It wasn't necessary to make my point and was in poor taste and poor form.
Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by javert on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:10PM
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> It is very easy to politicize this, but it wasn't just the party in power
That's what I'm saying. Non-Trump people took a move out of Trump's playbook. That's vicious.
> The anti-maskers we're seeing today are directly their fault.
I wouldn't go that far. Anybody who is still anti-mask at this point is just an anti-reality nihilist.
We had studies about similar airborne illnesses that showed mask's effectiveness, and while I am sympathetic to protecting key medical supply lines, they have done long term harm to public trust and mask adoption.
The anti-maskers we're seeing today are directly their fault.
Even now, we're still seeing misinformation about the difference between cloth and N95 effectiveness, particularly as the US has failed to ramp up N95 production after months of seeming inaction. Even healthcare providers are still struggling with PPE, let alone the general public or educators with the upcoming school re-openings.