Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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LurkerJ said:

He said in a previous interview that they didn’t work and potentially posed risks. How does he have any credibility at all? People could've made their own in house. Being lectured by him and many of his colleagues that we're not doing enough to save lives while simultaneously sprouting lies. A bunch of phonies. 

Had he said that they were effective, then people would have stormed and looted pharmacies just to get their hands on them at the time, and healthcare professionals, who need them the most, would have stayed empty-handed. He was between a rock and a hard place; admitting that masks work and risk a riot from people to get them and those who need them most not getting them; or lying to buy some time to get more stocks on the masks so everybody could get some at a later date.

The only other thing that he could have said is that any cover over the mouth and nose, be it a homemade mask, a bandana, a scarf, a visor, or anything else along those lines would be helpful, but that the medical masks will be reserved for medical staff until they got enough stocks in reserve. But I'm not sure about the efficacy of these compare to the medical masks, and they maybe also didn't, so they didn't want to go any risks later down the road with those and rather said that masks don't help.