Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an agency within HHS, told the Senate committee on Tuesday that masks are usually recommended for those who are infected and health-care workers, but not for the general population. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently does not recommend the use of face masks by the general public to prevent COVID-19.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/us-c...cial-says.html
I wouldn’t call that “spreading lies”.
I was talking about this side of the pond, specifically Germany.
The government-funded Robert Koch institute (kind of a German pendant to the CDC) has repeatedly stated that masks do not help. They formulate it like "there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask significantly reduces the risk of a healthy person contracting infection". Which may be legally correct, but it creates a broad impression that masks are pointless. Of course, government-managed "public" TV channels then spread lies to the general public and tell that one should not wear a mask and that washing hands is enough for now.
Or for example, a few days ago, the health minister of the Brandenburg federal state publicly said that "
it is totally pointless to walk around wearing a mask".
These are just blatant lies. If everyone were wearing a mask (even just a surgical one), the disease would be spreading much, much slower.