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Originally Posted by Paul
Why is it "safer".
Wear a mask in case of what ?
What are you afraid of exactly ?
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It’s proven that a mask reduces transmission. For the princely sum of 25 pence an FFP2 mask would reduce the chances of catching Covid on a plane. Which overseas I’m sure would likely be an expensive experience if requiring even moderate medical treatment.
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Infection rates as such dont mean much on their own.
The real issue is serious illness (hospitalisations) and/or deaths.
It doesnt matter if the whole country is infected, if almost everyone just shakes it off.
Most of the country gets infected by colds every year, but we just shake it off, no big deal.
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The serious illness and/or death figure is indeed more important, we just seem to have higher incidence of those than other countries too.
Now we can either rest on our laurels of British exceptionalism or seek to learn what best practice is going on elsewhere. Our economic recovery isn’t going to be robust with relatively high incidence of the virus, hospitalisations and deaths. In the worst case scenario - and one indeed the Government is planning for - restrictions have to come back in.
I’d say it’s more important to work out what’s going on now rather than too late as we did before every lockdown to date.
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Originally Posted by nffc
In other words, what figures equate to "it's over" - my guess would be this isn't zero.
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I’m inclined to agree it’s not zero, but economic recovery needs a high level of consumer confidence. Which isn’t likely to rebound if the perception is that the levels are high and if, for example, people are unable to get ambulances and hospitals are cancelling routine appointments.
If we are unable to learn lessons from other countries, and have higher levels without economic recovery, then all we’ve achieved is more dead Brits.