re: Fauxi: Americans should continue wearing masks after Covid

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Fauci told Todd that he thought some Americans might choose to continue wearing masks in public due to the normalization of the practice.

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Yes. These are the least intellectual among us.

I will go a step further and say that it's also bad public health policy. Sure, you might reduce transmission of respiratory diseases, but part of what makes a pathogen more or less lethal is prior exposure. The immune system must be challenged/exposed in order to be effective. If a population goes into "immunological hiding", it becomes more susceptible to the the next exposure event. You make the population more naive; the pathogen more "novel".

COVID19 isn't the first coronavirus; it won't be the last.