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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, given NYC was still a week or two away from shit hitting the fan, and still being in the early stages of figuring out how contagious it was, and dumbasses hoarding toilet paper.... they didn't want the dumbasses to hoard masks, too.
That said, I don't like the bolded comment at all. He's perfectly on point by saying "it's not providing the perfect protection that people think it is", in this black and white world. Like someone posted last night, masks aren't perfect, social distancing isn't perfect, etc... but, there's at least some value in each of those things.
Saying there's no reason and it's not perfect is just as black and white as most people make things out to be, so you're giving people with black & white reasoning some black & white reasons not to do something, instead of a little education on how a mask could help, but perhaps isn't required at the time.
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At that time they didn't know that droplet was probably the primary way it spread versus aerosol or surface contact.
But that aside, would mask wearing be an issue if Trump hadn't made it an issue?
If a president Romney was wearing a mask on TV would it have mattered what Fauci said back in March?