ollie989898
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Masks have been worn in medical or surgical settings for years. It's hardly a huge encumbrance to have to wear one.
What a defeatist attitude.Devils advocate: Unless a mass vaccine is here before the end of summer will it make any difference to the final death toll? I wonder if we are all better to go around licking door knobs and catch it while colds and flu at least are less prevelant. Wear masks etc now and catch it in the autumn plus flu?
By rights, colds and flu should be less prevalent this winter if masking, distancing and sanitising measures for cv19 work as they're all coronaviruses. Since the government is reported to planning on offering flu vaccines this year to far more people I can't decide if they have no faith their cv19 suppression strategies will work, or they're just being super cautious, or you're right and we need to get it over with now because nothing's going to stop a second wave.Devils advocate: Unless a mass vaccine is here before the end of summer will it make any difference to the final death toll? I wonder if we are all better to go around licking door knobs and catch it while colds and flu at least are less prevelant. Wear masks etc now and catch it in the autumn plus flu?
Good .UK government just imposed 14 day quarantine for anyone coming in or returning from Spain
UK government just imposed 14 day quarantine for anyone coming in or returning from Spain
Scotland have followed , Nikky is better at twitter than the WelshEngland only so far, but I would expect Scotland, Wales and NI to follow.
Scotland have followed , Nikky is better at twitter than the Welsh
Masks have been worn in medical or surgical settings for years. It's hardly a huge encumbrance to have to wear one.
Sometimes I wonder how intelligent humans fail to see the obvious. Viruses have no brain and their survival strategy is not pre-planned but purely random. We are the ones with brains and we just have to understand how to use them. There is a high failure rate in this respect because we have an unbelievable superiority complex which leads us to behave like complete morons at times. Following a few simple precautions will improve our survival rate and in turn that of our economic well being. Ignore the obvious and there is trouble for all of us.
Fake newsOutbreaks apparently mostly in agricultural regions very rarely visited by tourists.
Guess it'll be coming here in truck loads with the produce and packaging then?
Masks are not 100% effective any more than tin helmets were in WW2. We must take every reasonable precaution and that includes applying common sense.Slightly different. Surgeon is standing on top of a very vulnerable person with an open hole in their body. In that situation, it's also the much larger bacteria that they are worried about. Not really viruses.
That's true. And I do apply some simple precautions. I just don't think masks is one of the more effective ones.
@Exfarmer Are you trying to say that microscopic coronaviruses don't travel on aerosol? Of course they do. And aerosol doesn't land any time soon. You have to suck it away by force or through-draft. N95 masks may well reduce the intake of aerosol, but few people will be wearing those. So a much more consistent way is to stay out of the air space. If people go in without N95, it's going to spread, and that's the hard truth. I think face coverings are a strategy to give people confidence in themselves to go back out and use business and services again, for the economy's sake.
Just been to Tesco , everyone masked up , except the cashiers .