Cloth masks do protect the wearer

Re:Cloth masks do protect the wearer by birken on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:33PM (#24336979)

The public health experts didn't say "Masks don't work", otherwise there wouldn't have been such an issue to getting masks to health care workers.

There also was a very robust debate at the time about whether masks worked or not, and which types of masks worked, hence why lots of researchers immediately started to study these issues.

I'm not saying there wasn't incorrect information out there, but it wasn't nearly as binary as you are making it out to be.

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Re:Cloth masks do protect the wearer by renewiltord on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:41PM (#24337020)

Here is a public health authority saying "Masks don't work"

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

I'll quote it for you: (but read it in its entirety if you want the whole thing, it's only one Tweet)

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus...

There is no nuance in that statement (I did not capitalize the 'NOT'. It comes capitalized already).

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