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Experts or pundits?

Sun., July 5, 2020

Sue Lani Madsen cherry-picks her statistics in her column about mask wearing. Who cares about droplet studies conducted in 2015? What is important is that 2020 studies and models have shown clearly that mask-wearing significantly slows community transmission of COVID-19. Virtually all public health and infectious disease experts agree.

Mask shaming is not going to lead to more community breakdown. That is caused by the politicization of public health. Who are you going to believe: conservative politicians and pundits, like Trump, Knezovich and Madsen? Or public health experts like Fauci and Lutz? I know who I trust.

You want to be able to further open up the economy? Quit whining and wear a mask!

Galen Goertzen

Spokane

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