Why is the WHO telling people NOT to wear masks?

[PassingFair]

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks


These videos are ridiculous.

[Beakybird]

1. The videos I see are about wearing a mask.

What video are you referring to?

[PassingFair]

2. I can't cut and paste on my iPad without difficulty...

But they clearly state in the videos and on their graphics that you should NOT wear a mask unless you are taking care of a sick person.

[PassingFair]

3. Here.

?Culture=en&sfvrsn=50396714_15

[Freethinker65]

10. It is my understanding that different countries have different guidelines

Those guidelines are developed depending on historical and current infection and hospitalization rates as well as public behaviors.

We need to wear masks in the US. The infection/death rate in the US is starting to stabilize. Unfortunately, people in the US are less likely to social distance themselves as things reopen. We are already seeing second spikes in areas that have opened where people returned to their pre-pandemic behaviors. Wearing masks in the US offers some protection from infecting others. If everyone wears a mask, people will feel less at risk as they venture out and try to return to some normalcy. It makes sense to require masks in the US.

[PassingFair]

12. WHO guidelines are for U.S. as well.

I looked.

[Freethinker65]

15. Guidelines are guidelines. They are a starting point

I would not be too upset about the WHO guidelines.

[PassingFair]

16. I'm upset because Covidiots are sharing this to shore up

... their opposition to wearing masks in enclosed public areas.

[Freethinker65]

19. I am also upset about it. They are being ignorant and/or selfish.

Right now I suppose I am lucky that I live in a state that requires the use of face coverings in public spaces. I don't know what I would have done these past months if I was confronted with non mask wearing non social distancing idiots while making my occasionally necessary public outings.

I just did not want people to start blaming the WHO guidelines for what these idiot Americans are choosing to do/not do. Conservatives I know wear masks. They are conservative, but not idiots.

[PassingFair]

20. I live in a state that requires them as well.

But many are not wearing them, and they are everywhere (with the exceptional of Costco )

[PassingFair]

4. No-Maskers are sharing the crap outta this on Facebook right now...nt

[Freethinker65]

18. Get off of Facebook. Problem solved. Jk

Kidding, but seriously.

The same people that support defunding the WHO are probably the same ones thinking they have reason to gloat about the guidelines. Guidelines are just that, guidelines. In this case, pretty much the minimum one should try to do to lessen the spread of COVID-19.

Not all places throughout the world are dealing with the same infection rates, access to supplies and medical care, pre-pandemic behaviors of their citizens, etc. There is currently not a one size fits all response.

[brewens]

5. I think that's an old link. It says novel-coronavirus-2019. If that's been up since then, they

should have updated it. Then I found they were still saying no need for masks on 3/30, but nothing after that. Was it determined asymptomatic people were spreading the virus after that?

[PassingFair]

6. They're linking from NY Post and Faux

https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/healthy-people-should-wear-masks-only-if-caring-for-coronavirus-patients-who-says/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR3xnHY6L_vkCGUmjIdswUsKVLer25NYLW6zPjucYqRwzMvXuK1ITwXF9E8

[PassingFair]

7. It's from the current WHO guidance.

They DEFINITELY need to update!

[H2O Man]

21. True fact.

Yet there are those who post it on DU.

[Kaleva]

8. I don't see where they say not to wear a mask.

I see one part where they say a healthy person only needs to wear it when taking care of someone infected with COVID-19 but no where do i see where WHO says not to wear one.

[PassingFair]

9. Here, and in the videos

[PassingFair]

11. They don't bring up the use of masks as a TRANSMISSION abatement

... at all.

[Kaleva]

14. Looks like WHO needs to update its info.

The dates are old, relatively speaking.

[PassingFair]

17. I'll say! Nt

[stillcool]

13. lack of masks?

That's why this country said people did not need to wear masks, until they managed to get some. All the hoarding, and lack of masks for first-responders, doctors and nurses, forced them to say the masks weren't needed, just washing the hands, keeping a distance, and staying at home. Is it different because the WHO is saying it, rather than the whatever?

[Ms. Toad]

22. Those videos were posted in early February and early March.

It was part of the lie they told people out of fear that non-medical people would grab up all of the masks and leave nothing for the health care staff who needed them.

It wasn't true then (so they should never have posted them), but they have apparently didn't take them down after the recommendations changed.

[PassingFair]

23. That's what I'm telling the anti-mask covidiots.

Too bad we have no influence over the WHO these days...

[Ms. Toad]

24. Not sure it would help, given the crap the CDC is posting these days.

The posted, then were forced to retract, guidance to faith communities about their dangerous practices beause it conflicted with Trump's message that churches can open and everything is rainbows and sunshine.