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Re 3) I rather see it either enforced in shops/public transport and not vaguely suggested, the moral high ground brigade and no result is all we get from "maybe you should wear one...".
They do seem to help if everyone wears them when in enclosed spaces (parties/transport/with people in a house) but now it's just a shame game.
Only one way out of the helmet debate now: A full face mountainbike helmet with pollution filter and you shaming them YOU COULD SLIP AND FALL ON A BANANA PEEL HOW DARE YOU BURDEN THE NHS WEAR A HELMET ON YOUR WALK ;)
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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.