Maggie's Farm

If you had 330 million masks and issued everyone one mask. It would not do any good for 325 million people. BUT it would doom every active health care worker to being exposed to the virus. They spend a 12 hour (some work longer hours) a day in a highly contagious environment. The rest of us, some 325 million of us do not and the mask only serves to "comfort" us kind of like whistling past a graveyard. BUT if you have 330 million masks and preserve them for use by those who are likely to be exposed so that they can put on a fresh mask as needed THEN these critical health care workers will remain uninfected and able to provide health care and save lives. Is what the Surgeon General said than a lie? NO! Not in the context of what we know about contagious diseases and health care.