Instead, 6 months in when we knew it was transmitted through air, we continued to make businesses sanitize their checkouts while people walked around in ineffective cloth masks.
Really fucked the dog there.
Keep in mind the disease was already all over the world when it was discovered.
Obviously, there's a preparedness issue which is probably the base root of that issue, but early enthusiastic masking instead of trying to send all the construction workers home probably would have gone a lot farther.
Wut
https://globalnews.ca/news/6715814/coronavirus-n95-masks-ont...
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5530081
Then, get this, a few years later, they needed them!
Best part was I already worked at an organization that required mask fitting for all employees, but when the pandemic hit that this was in preparation for, everybody wanted them and there weren’t any available.