I just want to chime in on one point that you make here, that US officials insisted that masks were not effective in reducing infection rates and DID NOT recommend people wear masks from January to April 2020 (approx.). Then suddenly they did a 180 and officials began recommending and in some places mandating the use of face masks.
Trump recently started wearing a mask, when? Was it in July?
After he refused to wear it for 6 months. Now he quasi-supports masks? This is schizophrenic (no offence to people who have schizophrenia). The amount of contradictory information coming from his administration and throughout media is unbelievable.
The level of incompetence is mind numbing.
This is an immense problem and 1 factor why the US is suffering the worst of this pandemic. Something that is rarely mentioned is the MASSIVE failure of the US healthcare system in dealing with this. I think that this is a greater issue than masks, it's the totality of the response that has been a total disaster right from the beginning.
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The flip flopping of the US has been quite staggering indeed. Most countries have suffered from this somewhat since its a totally unprecedented situation and nobody was trained for it. The UK for example attempted the herd immunity thing, only to realise it didn't make sense, and their policies on who can go where, when and in what numbers has been extremely messy too, from designing tracing apps to dumping it and just going with Google/Apple, to family bubbles, to no sex with your neighbours and dumping that within a few days! It's pretty wild to watch from a country which has already moved on