This is pretty much what I recall. The initial focus was on contracting COVID, of which only N95 masks prevent inhaling it; cloth masks don't do much to protect against inhaling it. I'm totally OK with them "lying" to the public about masks to prevent hoarding of the N95 masks. Hell, look at the hoarding of toilet paper that happened - can you imagine the hoarding of N95 masks that would have happened? If that hoarding of N95 masks had happened, how many more health care workers would have contracted COVID-19? How many fewer healthcare workers would have been available to treat patients because they contracted the virus or because they didn't have access to N95 masks? How many more lives would that have cost? As we saw with many things over the last three months, people are selfish and opportunistic, and sometimes not telling the whole truth is the only way to prevent that. My problem is that if you lie to me I'm not going to believe you when you do tell me the truth. It's just like the boy crying wolf.