Sorry this may not be the most helpful comment but this link is hardly evidence of us being right on anything or winning any fights...it’s a simple question with hardly any engagement.
I’m not saying we weren’t right, but I don’t think you’ve put this case forward very convincingly.
Here’s another example, which has actually happened 3 times to me already:
The truly ignorant don’t wear masks.
Many people wear masks or encourage others to wear masks in part to signal their knowledge and conscientiousness.
“Experts” counter-signal with “masks don’t do much”, “we should be evidence-based” and “WHO says ‘If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.’”
I respond by citing actual evidence in the form of a meta-analysis: medical procedure masks combined with hand hygiene achieved RR of .73 while hand hygiene alone had a (not statistically significant) RR of .86.
After over a month of dragging their feet, and a whole bunch of experts saying misleading things, the CDC finally recommended people wear masks on April 3rd 2020.
Yeah that link just serves as a timestamp of how early we were thinking about it (note first sentence pointing to private conversation). Could justify this if anyone doubts that uptake was earlier and higher than average, but it would involve a lot of digging in chats and facebook statuses.
It’s fine I don’t need justification, I just found that link an odd one. I don’t really think it shows anything given the small number of upvotes and only one response.
If anything it undermines your point if that’s the best thing you could find.
Better examples discussing masks are the posts about elastomeric respirators here and here. Unfortunately, almost no policy maker seemed to have listened.
Sorry this may not be the most helpful comment but this link is hardly evidence of us being right on anything or winning any fights...it’s a simple question with hardly any engagement.
I’m not saying we weren’t right, but I don’t think you’ve put this case forward very convincingly.
Here’s a quote from Wei Dai, speaking on Feburary 26th 2020,
After over a month of dragging their feet, and a whole bunch of experts saying misleading things, the CDC finally recommended people wear masks on April 3rd 2020.
Yeah that link just serves as a timestamp of how early we were thinking about it (note first sentence pointing to private conversation). Could justify this if anyone doubts that uptake was earlier and higher than average, but it would involve a lot of digging in chats and facebook statuses.
It’s fine I don’t need justification, I just found that link an odd one. I don’t really think it shows anything given the small number of upvotes and only one response.
If anything it undermines your point if that’s the best thing you could find.
Mass-reach posts came later, but sooner than the US mainstream updates
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h4vWsBBjASgiQ2pn6/credibility-of-the-cdc-on-sars-cov-2
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
Better examples discussing masks are the posts about elastomeric respirators here and here. Unfortunately, almost no policy maker seemed to have listened.