Here we go again, San Fran calls for indoor masking

Four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco is still recommending people consider the use of masks indoors.

The San Francisco Department of Health posted a message to X that urged folks to “consider wearing a well-fitted mask in crowded indoor spaces,” and included a picture of a woman in a blue surgical mask.

Make this summer a healthy one for yourself and others. With COVID-19 circulating, please consider wearing a well-fitted mask in crowded indoor spaces. #COVID #CovidVaccination pic.twitter.com/dXQQniWoOh

— SFDPH (@SF_DPH) July 26, 2024

Shockingly, this message took heat from a lot of people. Some argued against the efficacy of masking as a whole, while others argued that the mask depicted in the photo was not the best choice.

Well-fitted masks are N95s.
It is irresponsible to promote blue loose masks in the picture.

— Laetitia Moreau-Gabarain MS MBA (@MoreauGabarain) July 27, 2024

Stop highlighting surgical masks. Focus on n95 masks. They are far superior and not expensive any more.

— Beverly Stein (@BeverlyStein20) July 26, 2024

Are you people ILLITERATE?

There are 170 studies showing masks CAUSE HARM and are INEFFECTIVE.

Do no harmhttps://t.co/uSd94TW1wk

— ʟᴇғᴛ ᴄᴏᴀˢᴛ ᴠᴀɢʀᴀɴᴛ (@Baklava_USA) July 29, 2024

It should help with all the feces planted around your city

— Thirteen O’Clock – Todd (@o_thirteen) July 28, 2024

Why are you promoting this silliness again? If masks had worked, we would have seen the evidence in the previous hyateria. Even basic physics illustrates that they will have highly marginal results.

All this because another election year????

— Charles X Proxy™ (@Charlemagne0814) July 28, 2024

Nope. Stay home!

— ▄︻デIII% ‍☠️ μολὼν λαβέ══━一 (@EltonMagaRust) July 28, 2024

It’s no wonder why San Francisco is in the shape it’s in.

— *****jerZboyMediaUSA**** (@jerZboyUSA) July 29, 2024

What about all the needles and human feces is that bad for your health?

— Cass Draper (@drapercass) July 29, 2024

Great message. But who chose a photo showing visible nose gaps for this “well-fitted mask”?
N95s fit well. That’s impossible for pleated surgical masks.@SF_DPH—you should be the experts on respirators, not disseminators of misinformation! Read up!https://t.co/RjWsIR5UxE pic.twitter.com/eqA8HUNvw7

— Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. (@AltenbergLee) July 27, 2024

Y’all thank you for finally recommending masks but WHY on earth, in a tweet recommending “well fitting masks”, did you use a surgical mask and not an N95 or at LEAST a KN95??? Mixed messages much?

— Lunar| BOYCOTT HYV (@multipluna) July 28, 2024

That’s not a fitted mask in the picture. That’s a surgical mask to stop spray coming out of the wearer’s mouth.

How many years will it take until public health organisations can simply produce an informative, accurate press release? Embarrassing.

— UBI stories (@ubi_stories) July 28, 2024

What happened with the safe and effective vaccines?

— Raccoon (@MeCommonRaccoon) July 26, 2024

Why not just bring back a curfew or keep us from hiking outside again so we can avoid what is on par for most people with a cold?

I live in the Bay Area and am absolutely done with San Francisco for this constant attempt to control and surveil and purify the human body.

— Number 99 (@MmeBlackBalloon) July 29, 2024

But because it’s San Francisco, other people were thankful for the message:

Wow, public health actually promoting public health! It’s a miracle!

(Never stopped masking, never got Covid. Respirators work.)

— HeyHoLetsSew (@sew_hey) July 28, 2024

I’m wearing masks. Don’t love it, but I love COVID less.

— Churchlady320 (@churchlady320) July 28, 2024

School begins in 3 weeks, please give the same advice to @SFUSD_Supe when students are sat in a small space with 30 other classmates & their teacher.

— Valerie Jay (@ValerieJay16) July 28, 2024

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