Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by arcticbull on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:15PM
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There’s a reason I linked the study. I agree they work.
Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by bee_rider on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:15PM
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I can see the idea of guiding the public to not wear masks if it really is some zero-sum game where first responders lose if the public wears them. I disagree with this strategy due to the second order effects (reduced trust, later confusion), but it at least makes some sort of sense.
I can’t see the logic of telling the public that masks don’t help, if it is possible for people to actually increase the supply of masks by making them at home. In this case it isn’t a small manipulation that doesn’t hurt anyone, but harmful misinformation.
> A better option, he says? Start with a two-layered cloth mask that has been washed, which gives it the capacity to filter better. If you want to go one step further in protection, use a KN95 mask, he says.
So it isn’t like the suggested option is some esoteric thing that you need a 3M factory to make. “Single layers cloth masks don’t work” isn’t technically a lie but it omits that there was an alternative solution that was within the means of like… anybody with a sewing machine and a washing machine to make.