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Originally Posted by Opie
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I think the point you're getting at is when they said the masks weren't needed for normal people in the very beginning?
Did you see what happened when people thought the end of the world was coming and stormed the stores to pick clean all their toilet paper packages, cleaning supplies, etc.? None of the major media news people were saying anything about supply chains being disrupted, but people went crazy anyway and bought way more of basically all supplies.
I think the point of that was simply they felt masks would be better used in the right spaces (hospitals) and were afraid they'd be running out of supply. Until, of course, supply could be ramped up (let's be honest, masks aren't a typical item that the general populace uses, it's not as easy to ramp up production on those like it is for toilet paper or even hand sanitizer).
IMO (and maybe I'm wrong) the result of going back on the mask mandate like that was more people were out and about spreading it without realizing due to not wearing a mask, which resulted in more deaths and illness, which would... technically prove the point that COVID is actually fairly dangerous (obviously not for everyone, but for a good chunk of people).