Harambe wrote:
big HONKING birds wrote:
As we know, without the USPS's mask program, no one was able to obtain a mask. Damn.
Ah yes, back when the CDC was telling people how to make a mask out of T-shirts.
Also, the feds setting an example for mask compliance would have been great too. You know, leadership.
You all will bend over backwards to defend the guy who has done nothing since February.
Yea Fauci admitted he initially said masks aren't effective to shore up the supply of them for frontline workers. The response from medical officials was very inconsistent and muddled at first. Orange man bad though.
There's some kind of collective amnesia wrt the covid timeline. It's brought on by TDS but can be overcome with some willpower. Masks weren't even mandated in most states until mid-late April, and that was only in stores.
via Intellectual Takeout:
March 2: U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that wearing face masks could increase risk of contracting COVID-19, and advised non-healthcare workers to “stop buying masks.”
April 1: In an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a group of Harvard public health experts wrote: “Wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to COVID-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic COVID-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching COVID-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
April 3: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that healthy people – who may be asymptomatic or “pre-symptomatic” – wear cloth face coverings in public settings like groceries and drug stores where maintaining six-feet social distancing is not possible. The purpose of wearing a mask was to protect asymptomatic transmission to vulnerable populations like the elderly, particularly in communities experiencing significant outbreaks.
April 5: Asked by a reporter during the then-daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing why he was not wearing a face mask, Fauci offered the opposite explanation as the CDC’s about the value of being masked: “The major reason to wear a face mask, is to protect you from infecting you,” adding that he had tested negative for COVID-19 the day before.
April 6: Surgeon General Adams had changed his mind, and was demonstrating how to make cloth masks.
May 27: Fauci reversed himself, telling CNN’s Jim Sciutto he wears a mask in public “because I believe it is effective. . . . I do it when I am in public for the reason that I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you should be doing.”
May 28: Since the onset of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised against healthy people wearing face masks, and reiterated its recommendation that people without COVID-19 symptoms need to wear a mask only when caring for someone who has contracted the virus. Those who are coughing or sneezing should also wear a mask.