<story><title>Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19</title><url>https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>That’s because the U.S. population was strongly against masks. In the beginning the US public was strongly in favor of the vaccines. In fact the complaints were around the delay in vaccine availability and the way the rich and powerful could access them earlier.&lt;p&gt;It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.</text></item><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>It always baffled me that the US government had a program to send everyone free COVID tests, but they didn’t have a program to send everyone free N95 masks, so we ended up wearing random materials that were far less effective.&lt;p&gt;With all of the mandates to wear a mask everywhere I at least would have liked to wear one that worked well. You would have thought if they could produce 6 free tests per household per month, they could produce 6 free N95 masks per household per month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>You mixed up parties a bit.&lt;p&gt;Democrats were criticising Trump for rushing the vaccine, and flaming vaccine scepticism, helped by mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSKBN2671R8&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;idUSKBN2671R8&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; September 17, 20201&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Democrat Biden warns against rushing out coronavirus vaccine, says Trump cannot be trusted&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19</title><url>https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>That’s because the U.S. population was strongly against masks. In the beginning the US public was strongly in favor of the vaccines. In fact the complaints were around the delay in vaccine availability and the way the rich and powerful could access them earlier.&lt;p&gt;It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.</text></item><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>It always baffled me that the US government had a program to send everyone free COVID tests, but they didn’t have a program to send everyone free N95 masks, so we ended up wearing random materials that were far less effective.&lt;p&gt;With all of the mandates to wear a mask everywhere I at least would have liked to wear one that worked well. You would have thought if they could produce 6 free tests per household per month, they could produce 6 free N95 masks per household per month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>padjo</author><text>It’s truly insane that vaccine deniers are now voting for Trump, when he was the one to take credit for them in the first place (and perhaps with some small justification!)</text></comment>