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Originally Posted by spence
Fauci stated very clearly the mask guidance at the outset was due to a lack of PPE and a focus on hospitals.
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I know that he later rationalized why he encouraged the general public not to wear masks, but in terms of doing things early that could mitigate the spread of the virus, it makes no difference what his reasoning was. Many people, no doubt, took his encouragement at heart and did not wear a mask. So he was part of the supposed problem of not doing the right thing at the critical early stage.
And the WHO went beyond that rationalization and cast doubts on the actual efficacy, or necessity of wearing masks until sometime in august, which was way past the critical early stage that people want to blame Trump for. And many other worldwide "experts" also were negative about mask usefulness well past the critical early stage.
Fauci was only one of many. But Trump is blamed for not doing some unspecified thing early enough.