“They also learned the importance of having face masks available...something that, I guess, was too complex for the CDC to understand.”
I understand that is the reason for the low transmission in South Korea and Japan, people go in public wearing masks.
“I understand that is the reason for the low transmission in South Korea and Japan, people go in public wearing masks.”
Yep, it makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE between having a nearly linear rate of growth, versus exponential. But the CDC can’t admit that we have none, because they figured only those ‘silly Asians’ have a ‘need’ to wear masks.
I have procedure masks at home for any visitors to wear inside my house, if they don't have their own masks.
The CDC and Vice-President Pence told the public tnat N95 masks wouldn't protect them from the Wuhan Virus. This was a lie which destroyed their credibility. They lied thinking that would preserve the limited public market supply of N95 masks for medical personnel.