Posted on 03/31/2020 11:28:16 AM PDT by Slainte
CDC guidance on masks remains under development, the federal official said. The official said the new guidance would make clear that the general public should not use medical masks — including surgical and N95 masks — that are in desperately short supply and needed by health-care workers.
Instead, the recommendation under consideration calls for using do-it-yourself cloth coverings, according to a second official who shared that thinking on a personal Facebook account. It would be a way to help “flatten the curve,” the official noted.
Such DIY cloth masks would potentially lower the risk that the wearer, if infected, would transmit the virus to other people. Current CDC guidance is that healthy people don’t need masks or face coverings.
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Oh make up yer effin minds....
I really don’t trust the CDC...do we want to become China now?
they were lying to us to stock up on masks for medical and first responders.
prove me wrong.
If I were a cartoonist, I’d draw a cartoon of two gun-wielding bandits walking into a bank wearing medical masks.
CDC considering telling everyone they have no clue what to do.
These people are all over the map....up, down, sideways...
Yeah, but where to get them? They are harder to obtain than a vaccine for this damned thing. And even if there were some to be had, chances are they were made in China, and that alone would make them suspect.
We screwed the pooch big time by cozying up to China.
They want us all to be MUSLIMS f that
9 seconds
It's not rocket science. South Korea and Taiwan have used masks as a key part of their successful anti-CV strategy for 2 months.
And it's not "sick looking" people coughing, it can be a healthy-looking asymptomatic spreader at conversational range. Think about the young cashier at the grocery store, sharing breaths with the last half-dozen customers, while passing cash back and forth.
This screen cap from the below linked video does not do it justice. Watch the video to see how much airborne crap is exchanged at conversational range.
I think this is more about how to make a u-turn without looking like you made a u-turn. it’s the bureaucratic way.
concur with the just do it philosophy
Oh good grief!! Not wearing a mask. It’s suffocating.
Dr. Fauci the Great strikes again!!!
The reason why they said only sick people to wear masks is because they didnt have enough masks..we have the surgical masks in the house along with two N95 masks..I dont care what anyone says when I go outside I wear it and dont have to worry about someone coughing nearby, due to coronavirus or any other type of virus they might have
If you can’t find a great N-95 mask, even home-made cloth masks are 80% as good at preventing social spread. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. There are dozens of YouTube tutorials on making your own masks.
Have people quit dying from the flu???
We never hear any deaths from the flu anymore....
bring on the burkas
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