To lock down or not to lock down? This is the question dominating public debate as Australia tries to find its way through the COVID-19 pandemic. The pros and cons are laid out daily in the media: surging unemployment, falling GDP, and vocal protesters aggrieved by the limitation of freedoms on the one hand, but on the other we have the spectre of mass deaths internationally and local outbreaks to remind us of the consequences of losing control of this virus.
But what if there was another answer, a technological solution, which allowed us to go on with our daily business while preventing the transmission of the virus? Something cheap and lightweight that could turn each person into their own, mobile "lockdown bubble", locking the virus down without locking down the human. Something that would stop the viral particles from leaving one person's mouth and nose and entering that of the next person ...
You see where this is leading. The technology exists: it’s called a mask, and there won’t be any Nobel prizes awarded for the discovery that it reduces the transmission of COVID-19. It works if you are a cafe worker – two dozen patrons of awere infected in August after a person with COVID-19 visited; none of the four mask-wearing employees was infected.
Among some telling cases on the effectiveness of masks is an instance of infection in a Seoul Starbucks.It works in the cramped confines of a warship – during the outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt,
the good doctor didn’t read the instructions on the packet . . . experts vs common sense
Survival of the fittest at its finest. Let those without mask be. Darwin’s law will do the work
Or the fact that those mask wearers did not do a good enough job of wipe-downs & decontamination of public areas. Only looked after themselves
It has been proven by China long time before. Why it is not mentioned untill today. Meanwhile, the prizes is going to be awarded to the one who killed hundred thousands of people.
Perhaps you should just take the advice of the epidemiologists. Like the Victorian government has done.
Also because of all the studies coming out about illnesses they are causing.