Coronavirus: Face masks not recommended for healthy individuals, but essential for health workers and sick people - Health

I always find that little addition at the end amusing - sick people. Guess what, people can by sick yet asymptomatic for days before realising something is wrong with them, therefore everyone should wear a mask because they may be asymptomatic. The whole argument that masks are only for HCWs and sick people can be so easily shot down by this simple piece of logic.

Currently we lack supply and education. Once we have a constant supply of masks coming, great, the next step the govt needs to take is an aggressive and transparent information campaign to teach the population on how to use the masks correctly without contaminating themselves. But this is easily months away. For now western governments have decided that lying to the population to prevent hoarding was the way to go.

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