Back in March-April of 2020? They sure as hell were. Everyone I talked to said we'd be quarantining for a couple weeks at most before coming back together like nothing happened. Fauci was even saying that masks make no significant difference at that time, iirc.
Why do you conflate what officials said about masks with how they explained how dangerous the situation was?
You’re getting hung up on the mask thing but ignore that they were simultaneously advocating for extreme social distancing measures to limit exposure. You don’t need a mask if you’re not around other people.
Medical grade masks (not the paper thin surgical masks) were in very short supply and this is when hospitals all over the country realized they wouldn’t have enough masks to keep their staff safe if their areas saw the infection spreading. They couldn’t just buy more either because the global demand for N95 masks jumped to levels never seen before and the production levels wouldn’t catch up to demand for months since each hospital was basically competing with the rest of the world’s hospitals in procuring masks for its staff.
If they’d come out and told everyone that they should all wear masks, then hospitals would have run out of masks almost immediately as the selfish assholes of capitalism would have bought every mask they could to scalp them.
Whether or not this was the right decision is debatable. But the supply and demand situation they faced was certainly real.
In March and April we had no fucking idea what was going to happen, and do you remember the narrative being sold on conservative media?
By late March and early April, the mood had clearly changed. Two-thirds of Americans – including majorities in both parties and across all major demographic groups – saw COVID-19 as a significant crisis at that time. Large majorities saw a recession or depression coming, predicted the pandemic would last more than six months, said the worst was still to come and anticipated that there could be at least some disruptions to Americans’ ability to vote in the presidential election in November. All of those things would turn out to be true.
That was over a year ago, everyone was doubting covid back then.
“Everyone” was not doubting covid back then. There may have been significantly more people than today that doubted covid but even if, and this ‘if’ is a gross underestimate, only 10% of the population took covid seriously that would still be over 30 million people.
Nice straw man, did you make him yourself? The difference there is that one is taking a chance to get a somewhat unknown disease that at first didn't seem worse than the flu, while the other is willingly taking the most famous deadly poison. Though I know masks and cyanide are very similar, to a trained eye there is a difference. (Edit: also, I find it ironic that you called someone an idiot in the same sentence as you said "an dumb")
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u/master_perturbator 26d ago
The simulation is running out of memory.