[edwinland]

My daughter is an ICU nurse. If the choice comes down to me having one when I go to a grocery store or her having it when she pulls a spittle-laden ventilator tube out of a dead patient, I’ll defer to her every time.

My point exactly. By and large, Americans are honest and patriotic. If they told us masks are effective and that's why nurses need them, people would have responded the same way.

But they don't trust average Americans like us to do the right thing, so they lie to us because they know better.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Our problem is not with you or me, or with anybody I know well. It is with our huge and burgeoning feral population that can’t be trusted to make sacrifices or do the right thing.