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Some US White House correspondent was on Radio 4 just before lunchtime naming and shaming members of his government for not wearing masks that, in his words, were "the one thing proven to slow the spread". He also said he´d been wearing N95s for ages now. You know, the ones American hospitals desperately need now. The mind boggles.
The other day, also on R4, there was a whole programme that went sort of like this.
1) So these masks, eh? Let´s ask an expert. Expert woman: they don´t work in the way you think (protection for self as opposed to protection of others from sick self) because sciency reasons (no evidence, no training or discipline in use and disposal/washing, risk compensation).
2) How about Joe Public then, why do they wear masks? 80 per cent for myself, 20 per cent for others.
3) Moving on, how can we shame those naked-faced scum into wearing them as well?
Fuck´s sake. If passers-by start shouting at me for not wearing a mask the way they already do because I choose to ride a bike with a naked head I´m going full Howard Hughes. Rant over.