| Bofferbrauer2 said: 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. |
I am a keyworker and I had masks available to me since day 1 and I still find the lies uttered by him and many others to be disgusting. We are all served better by the truth, and I have immense respect and more faith in us individuals and for how most of us responded to the pandemic and followed the rules despite the fact that many of us don't agree with what we were told, why so much bending over for the phonies who literally screwed us over? This is beyond scandalous.
Any masks can help, even face coverings do the job at lowering risks of transmission, this is public knowledge at this point. There was absolutely no need to not encourage face coverings to the same degree other measures were encouraged. Besides, more factories would've jumped on the opportunity to make masks available for everyone have they known there is money for them in selling masks to everyone on the planet.
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