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Yeah, it's a stain on scientific institutions that the WHO and CDC are peddling unscientific nonsense. Makes me sad.

There's now a report that the CDC may start encouraging people to cover their faces in public.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490308-cdc-may-u...

They do not recommend wearing a mask, which is different from recommending not to wear a mask.

Edit: Here's the WHO's stance on wearing masks: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

Thanks for clarifying, I had wrote it wrongly.

This is an unfortunate side effect of how it's worded in many English articles. And like a game of telephone, the precision is lost in communication in social settings/media and people are telling each other to not wear masks (at least that's what I'm seeing)

If symptoms don't show up for days, how do you know you're not infected?