[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...-face-18163483

The Government are not "following the science", they are choosing which science to follow...

(Which is what I would expect - they have to consider a lot of other aspects)

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...ision-11980084

Speaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, professor Angela McLean said the Government's scientific advisory committee, Sage, recommended that there was "weak evidence of a small effect in which a face mask can prevent a source of infection going from somebody who is infected to the people around them".