Originally Posted by Excargodog

Horse$hit! I ABSOLUTELY believed they lied to me and knew it at the time. What I have been saying is that it was a dumb$hit move on their part and BAD POLICY. You, on the other hand, tried to justify it to me because idiots were buying out Costco and hoarding mountains of toilet paper.

It is entirely possible to support mask use as an intervention strategy (even while accepting it is not going to be 100% effective) while castigating whatever idiot compromised the credibility of the CDC by lying initially. Those are not mutually exclusive opinions to hold.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression and no field in medicine requires credibility with the public to do their job more than the field of public health. Whoever made the decision to lie shot themselves (and public health in general) in the foot. It was a STUPID thing to do.