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You telling people to buy expensive masks. They're going to be used multiple times forwards and backwards sticking them in their pocket 20 times then touching it and touching everywhere else. That's why masks are dangerous because the wearers don't understand how to use them This is what my MOPP training taught me in the 90s and again in 2000s. WE WERE TAUGHT BY UNITED STATES MILITARY TO NOT HAND OUT MASKS IN AN EPIDEMIC WHAT CHANGED?

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> WE WERE TAUGHT BY UNITED STATES MILITARY TO NOT HAND OUT MASKS IN AN EPIDEMIC WHAT CHANGED?

The US military was the wrong place to look for a general solution to a civilian crisis.

All advise given from a military context relies on the idea that the civilian administration will step in, and coordinate, or handle things on its own.

For example, the military is advised not to do long term criminal investigations... but that’s not because detective work is valueless, but because it’s expected that the civilian police will handle that.

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