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A few weeks ago on Hacker New this post was submitted: "Guidance against wearing masks for the coronavirus is wrong – cover your face (bostonglobe.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716618

Reading this thread I came a cross a comment promoting simple DIY masks if medical-grade masks were not available in sufficient numbers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716927

Today I was in contact with Spanish friend of mine and he told me he didn't have a mask. As I wasn't available to help, I told him that a using a scarf is probably better than nothing, and wanted to send him the link mentioned in the comment above, and translate it from English to Spanish:

https://link.medium.com/LY7RRNr2X4

The link leads to this post: https://medium.com/@matthiassamwald/promoting-simple-do-it-y...

Trying to translate this page on Google translate does not give any results, and it does not tell you the reason.

Yesterday a post showed that "YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954765

I wonder if this now also is the case for Google Translate?