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Re: Coronavirus
Nobody is ever going to publish that they wilfully mislead the public, but our advice was clearly contradictory to scientific evidence being applied elsewhere.
I’m not saying it was a bad decision. But I suspect that’s closer to the mark than it being an ineffective placebo. I think the position was then that it gave people confidence to not socially distance etc.
The official position then of course was stay home, protect the NHS, save lives. Masks giving people more confidence to go out was unwanted strategically.
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