[billfruit]

WHO still recommend not wearing mask, unless you are infected or caring for an infected person.

[drcode]

Yeah, it's a stain on scientific institutions that the WHO and CDC are peddling unscientific nonsense. Makes me sad.

[slantyyz]

There's now a report that the CDC may start encouraging people to cover their faces in public.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490308-cdc-may-u...

[yorwba]

They do not recommend wearing a mask, which is different from recommending not to wear a mask.

Edit: Here's the WHO's stance on wearing masks: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

[scarlac]

This is an unfortunate side effect of how it's worded in many English articles. And like a game of telephone, the precision is lost in communication in social settings/media and people are telling each other to not wear masks (at least that's what I'm seeing)

[billfruit]

Thanks for clarifying, I had wrote it wrongly.

[leviathant]

If symptoms don't show up for days, how do you know you're not infected?