Kevin Drum thinks the U.S. handling of COVID-19 has been as good as could be expected, maybe better. I'm not sure I agree with that and this is not a Trump thing. I assume the day will come when there will be studies and commissions on what went wrong and what cam be done to make them not go wrong in the future. I would love to hear what experts like Dr. Fauci — and not just him — will say then.
I don't go out much but when I do these days, I rarely see anyone not wearing a mask. Some of them are wearing two which obviously is more effective than one but what I don't get are these stats that say one mask is X% effective and two are Y% effective. Doesn't the kind of mask have a lot to do with how effective it is?
Obviously, some are too flimsy to be of some use. When mask-wearing was just starting up, I ordered a couple of different kinds off the 'net and threw one package away upon its arrival. You didn't have to be an immunologist to tell they would do no good. Might there not be masks out there that do the work of two? A mask that's more effective than two or three of some other variety? Obviously, I intend to keep masking-up when I go out in public for quite some time.