Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes
by ghaff on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:36PM
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What a lot of people would like to have heard in retrospect is something like the following even if a bit sugar-coated:
N95 masks are strongly believed to help but do not buy them. Save them for health care workers. We do encourage you to wear bandanas, gaiters/buffs, homemade cloth masks, or other non-medical PPEs. They are of unknown efficacy but they can't hurt. But don't buy N95s.
Which a lot of people would have heard as: You really should be wearing N95 masks and others won't do you much if any good but we need to save them for the important people.
(At which point, a lot of people would have been F this and tried to buy N95 masks for their own protection.)
N95 masks are strongly believed to help but do not buy them. Save them for health care workers. We do encourage you to wear bandanas, gaiters/buffs, homemade cloth masks, or other non-medical PPEs. They are of unknown efficacy but they can't hurt. But don't buy N95s.
Which a lot of people would have heard as: You really should be wearing N95 masks and others won't do you much if any good but we need to save them for the important people.
(At which point, a lot of people would have been F this and tried to buy N95 masks for their own protection.)