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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
There's a wonderful German saying that some of you will readily understand: "Wenn schonn, denn schonn".
It roughly translates to "If you're gonna do it, then do it properly".
Having a regulation that makes makes madatory in shops (etc) but allows removal when singing is absurd. The current Plan B has very little value beyond the common sense wearing of masks in enclosed premises.
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Working from home is a much, much more effective mitigation than masks.
If you're working from home, you stay at home all day. You only talk to colleagues on video calls, or phone calls, you don't go out to get lunch from the canteen or shops nearby, you don't interact with the colleagues sitting near you or wherever you go, you don't touch or share facilities such as toilets or kitchens in the workplace. You also don't travel which reduces the numbers on public transport or driving / lift sharing to work. All of this reduces the number of interactions you have a day. Of course not every job can be done from home but it helps doesn't it?
The exemption for singing is not so you can walk around a supermarket singing, or singing along to the music they're playing. It is to allow people who are there to sing as part of a job they are doing, such as those in choirs, to remove face coverings whilst singing (the exception even extends to allow choir members in a church service to not mask up at all, even during the parts of the service they are not singing). It just allows these people to do their job without having the hassle of a mask hokey-cokey or the impediment of singing with a mask on (which for those who are actual trained singers, is not far off an impossibility).