Did you get those five reusable masks through the U. S. Postal Service?U. S. (USPS) in April? Well, that was the USPS plan at the time, according to Tony Romm, Jacob Bogage and Lena H. Sun reporting to the Washington Post.
This is based on a review of nearly 10,000 pages of federal e-mails, legal memorandums, filings, and other documents requested through the U. S. Oversight tracking organization through the Freedom of Information Act. A draft USPS press release on distribution plans for 650 million masks across the country is included in the documents. That would have been about five face covers for every American home. That’s not a bad plan as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now asking Americans to wear masks to prevent spread. Covid-19.
A press release meant that the plan is probably in its complex stages. After all, you don’t have a tendency to write a press release until you’re sure something’s going to happen. Otherwise, it would be an unwelcome communication. Or an unwelcome statement. It would be a bit like preparing the wedding announcements before you start dating someone. Or make buns when there are no hot dogs.
Then why didn’t you get the mask? Because the plan was never fully implemented. Apparently, the White House said something like “oh no, you probably wouldn’t” in the USPS. According to the Washington Post article, a management official said: “Some members of the White House Policy Council and the vice president’s workplace were involved in families receiving masks causing fear or panic. A fear that creates fear? Now, who would care about a pandemic caused by a new Covid-19 coronavirus that has now caused more than 198,000 deaths??
The following tweet appears to be a copy of the draft press release, as well as some emotions and a subsequent correction of typographical error of @donmoyn:
As you can see, the moment the tweet corrects the typist “facmarks” in “masks”. One plan to supply postage stamps on people’s faces would have been another story, though not entirely unexpected by 2020.
According to the Washington Post article, the face mask was eventually intended for critical infrastructure sectors, businesses, fitness facilities, religious and networking organizations, and schools across the country through the America Strong Project, but it’s not entirely transparent when this happened and why the whole family mask has been avoided from being shipped in April.
Imagine what the other things would have been like if the USPS had moved on with the face mask plan. Would more people have gotten used to dressing in a mask sooner?How many transmissions and infections could have been prevented?
A publication on Health Affairs in June estimated that fifteen states plus Washington, D. C. , which issued mask authorization orders between April 8 and May 15, 2020, correlated with more than 200,000 instances of Covid-19 in less until May 22, 2020:
Of course, correlations and associations do not result in cause and effect, but there are transparent clinical reasons why wearing a mask can simply lessen the threat of transmitting the virus to others.
Moreover, would the more widespread use of the face mask have done what the White House did not need to do: raise considerations about the pandemic?If other people had taken the pandemic more seriously, they would have taken social esttachment and other preventive measures more. Could this have prevented even more cases?Maybe.
When it comes to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, it cannot simply be controlled. Well, you can use a mask to cover your face and add your nose for the sake of Pete and everyone else. But you don’t have to hide the realities. In a public fitness emergency, he deserves not to hide what he “knows. “By April, this virus had already shown that it can kill at a much higher rate than the flu. It had also shown in the past that it can cause suffering to those with the virus. The United States leads the rest of the world in terms of number of instances and deaths, strongly suggesting that the national reaction has not been adequate. And those are problems you can’t just hide.
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I’m a writer, journalist, teacher, systems modeler, computer science and virtual fitness expert, avocado eater, and entrepreneur – not all the time in that order. Currently, I am a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York School of Public Health (CUNY), Executive Director of PHICOR (@PHICORteam), Courtesy Professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and Founder and CEO by Symsilico. My previous positions were Executive Director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, and Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational, pursuing equity studies in biotechnology at Securities and co-founder of a biotechnology / bioinformatics company. My paintings have come with the progression of IT approaches, models, and equipment to assist creators of fitness and fitness resolution on every continent (except Antarctica) and have been supported by a wide variety of sponsors such as the Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates, NIH, AHRQ, CDC, UNICEF, USAID, and the Global Fund. I have written more than two hundred clinical publications and 3 books. Follow me on Twitter (@bruce_y_lee) but don’t ask me if I know martial arts.