COMMENTARY: 'Stop asking ‘if’ we should wear masks,' write doctors Pranay_md and Scott Heysell. 'The better question is, ‘when?’ '
Some of our colleagues believe that unmasking when rates are low will give the public a breather from the rigors of COVID mitigation. They believe this would also dispute the increasing criticism that public health professionals are nervous Chicken Littles. Others counter that unmasking now may result in mask-hesitancy later, when cases surge or a new variant appears.
But in our opinion, to mask or not to mask is not the question — when to mask is what we should be asking. Think of COVID mitigation strategies, including masking, as a yellow school bus. When a school bus merges onto a busy highway, it needs to speed up quickly to merge with traffic. That’s our on-ramp: when we see an uptick in cases, the masks go on. The off-ramp to taking off our masks, is like the school bus preparing to exit the thoroughfare – the turn signal and brakes go on, as we gather more information about the science and local health system stresses.
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