Was Asia Right All Along About the Wearing of Masks?
As the article states, Asia has long been right about the wearing of masks, I just think the CDC did not want to have a rush on these masks by the general American public when hospitals needed a chance to stockpile them:
Debate over masks ends: Asia was right all along
“There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit,” said Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies programme, as recently as Monday.
Korea Times
All that changed this week. On Friday, both the US and Singapore switched to advising citizens to wear masks when they leave their homes. The WHO also made a U-turn itself, with Ryan saying: “We can certainly see circumstances on which the use of masks, both home-made and cloth masks, at the community level may help with an overall comprehensive response to this disease.”
You can read more at the link, but this will be a huge cultural change in the U.S. where walking around with a mask could be confused for criminal activity.
“Masks” is too general.
Yes, masks work…some much more than others.
Specifics also matter, like how long is the person wearing the mask and in what type of environment?
There was a study done of cloth masks in Vietnamese hospitals a while back and they found surgical masks were better than nothing, and cloth masks worse than nothing. I’m assuming this is because droplets will seep through a cloth mask and then the person is wearing this fomite tightly up against their nose and mouth.
Cashiers working in liquor stores or convenience stores in bad neighborhoods should get hazardous duty pay.
Well, according to CNN face masks are some how racist. https://summit.news/2020/04/07/cnn-suggests-wearing-a-face-mask-in-public-is-racist/
I just want my surgical team wearing masks when they have me opened up…