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You only need to wear something that covers your mouth and nose (a buff will do) and only in ÖPNV and shops. It's compulsory yes, but shouldn't influence PPE supplies at all.
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Oh, I'm not worried about PPE supplies. I'm just worried about people relying on it too much and it having the opposite effect of what's intended, as above.
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Ive started wearing an anti viral buff when in shops, there’s definitely evidence they work and anything to help protect the people that work there has got to be a good thing.
Oliver Schick
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I'm mainly concerned with the compulsion aspect. Assuming that masks (as PPE, the lowest form of health and safety provision) make sense in some contexts (perhaps for medical personnel), if you make them compulsory you'll get people relying on them in contexts in which completely different measures are called for.
The whole farrago about PPE has served to obscure the Government's total failure to act effectively and in timely fashion. When you've gone down the hierarchy of measures so far that PPE is the only set of measures left, you've failed.
The FT claims that there may have been around 40,000 deaths in the UK that are COVID-19-related so far:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-live-news-us-states-start-to-reopen-as-detained-wuhan-journalist-reappears?page=with:block-5ea0c0828f084784dca5837c#block-5ea0c0828f084784dca5837c