The "money lines:"
-"In fact the U.S. surgeon general recently urged the public to
“STOP BUYING MASKS!” “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!,” wrote Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Twitter"
-Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases: “We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness."
-Dr. Amesh Adalja, a scholar at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health..."Even during H1N1 [flu epidemic], there was no recommendation to wear face masks,” he said. They “end up creating a false sense of security..."
-Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases: “We want our actions to be evidence-based and appropriate to the current circuмstance,” she said, which she said did not justify the use of face masks for people who have not been directly exposed to the virus.
-"Like the CDC, the աօʀʟd ɦɛaʟtɦ օʀɢaռiʐatɨօռ
advises people to wear a mask only if they are displaying symptoms of coronavirus or “taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.” In a separate update last month, the WHO gave instructions for how to appropriately wear and dispose of face masks. WHO also
noted, “However, the use of a mask alone is insufficient to provide the adequate level of protection and other equally relevant measures should be adopted.”