Otherwise, these companies look like oligarchs participating in low-key fascism.
> Novel coronavirus is believed to be tiny enough (0.08–0.14 μm) to penetrate through face mask, thus protection offered by cloth mask may be too low.
> The efficacy of cloth face masks filtration varies and depends on the type of material used, number of layers, and degree of moisture in mask and fitting of mask on face.
> Cloth face masks have limited efficacy in combating viral infection transmission.
This is twice as much of a problem when public health authorities like the CDC will issue statements or guidance that is directly contrary to the clinical research, as has been done repeatedly in claiming that masks work to slow community transmission of SARS-2 despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary
The problem here is the drive to babysit people's minds. There's an arrogance of "who knows best" which creates this exact problem we're seeing. People need to put a bullet in their ego and shut up.
where it uses metrics of ~20% effective in protecting masks wearers from catching the disease in a model.
instead, we have the media saying that rand is wrong, and CNN chasing doctors that dare say that masks don't prevent all spread.
the media has long decided that some facts are best not shared, but now they are complicit with a censorship regime where we all know that masks don't work 100%, but we also know that we will get punished for saying it out loud.
things that were called misinformation from CNN:
- masks don't always work - vaccines sometimes have side effects - you will most likely survive covid - vitamin c and d will help you fight covid.
A better approach might be to leave it up but flag it and link to a page that explains what parts of the claim are true and which are misconstrued or embellished.
Social media excels at optimizing that one more engagement, leverage it here to lead people closer to the truth.
No. That leads to potential for editorializing and taking us right back to square one. Treat people like sensible, intelligent adults.
[1] “YouTube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work”