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>See if you can find PPE reports from the Ebola days; up to 90% mortality meant that healthcare teams had to be absolutely protected. Before exposure, many teams underwent training refreshers involving fluorescing powder to check their PPE. Often, participants were surprised/dismayed to find fluorescence under masks or on skin within minutes, so that in some cases it took days before team/s could confidently gear up and be sure that they're not risking exposure.
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> This sort of rigor isn't seen for C19 with its fraction of a percent mortality and aerosol rather than body fluid spread, but it's interesting when out and about to watch how often people touch/adjust masks, whether cloth or paper, or pull masks out of pockets for reuse. Even disposable paper masks are being reused for convenience. IMHO there really needed to be a public "use it properly!" campaign rather than just "wear a mask, any mask will do."
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>Interestingly, it looks as if Tony Fauci is wearing disposable surgical masks under his cloth masks and POTUS also seems to have something else under his mask. Fauci did try to recommend double masking at one stage but it's since gone mostly back to masking exhortation or mandate.

Fauci has recommended every variation possible from no masks, to masks, to double masks, to single masks, back to no masks for vaccinated people, and now back to masks for all even vaccinated because actually the vaccines aren't vaccines by definition. You call this the fog of war but it doesn't wash - they know about virus, they know the size of the particles involved. This is not the first virus-rodeo the world has had. And they also know the definition of the word "vaccine".

I agree with most of what you say but Fauci has sold his soul. To wear anything less than N95, properly fitted, and all the time, with regular disposal and replacement, indicates that he is either ignorant or promoting a false sense of security, a comfort blanket. Either he is a scientist or he is a huckster politician. He is the latter and/or acting on the command of the latter.

The correct way to help people is not, as some here have so virtuously proclaimed, wearing a mask to make someone else feel better. That is simply pandering to and promoting ignorance. Worse, it's catering to a false sense of security which can have negative consequences from touching the face/mask, stuffing them in their pockets, relaxing one's situational awareness, and not doing other actually useful things as has been pointed out by numerous experts. You want to help people? Educate them about the truth, not BS them with political feel-good propaganda and pandering to peoples ignorance. I am tired of the virtue signalling BS of both our glorious exalted descended-from-heaven leaders and the people who willingly act as the foot-soldiers to promote the narrative.

The truth is that C19 mainly affects the old and the immune-compromised. I think something like 80%+ of hospitalizations and deaths are with people who are overweight and/or with diabetes or 2+ co-morbidity; situations often (not always) caused by life-style choices one was free to make. Now we will punish our children for decades and decades with the economic and psychological costs of protecting the lives of the very old and the very many who squandered their health. As usual the older generation will make the youth pay for their choices.

U.S. COVID-19 deaths 2020-21 by age (year)

– 30% of all deaths occurred over the age of 85

– 80% of all deaths occurred over the age of 65

– Only 15% of the U.S. population is over the age of 65

Now just add in the co-morbidity data ...

Source: CDC – https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/AH-Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Age-in-Yea/3apk-4u4f - NB. source is not FoxNews or someone's drunk uncle on Fecebook :)

The attached images are good examples of your "fog of war" ... or are they?