Posted on 08/28/2022 12:12:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As the mask mandate debate rages on, epidemiologists and medical specialists suggest looking to countries where citizens are perfectly happy to wear them to see how powerful the simple infection-control measure can be.
Nearly two-and-a-half years into the Covid-19 pandemic, countries where mask-wearing is a cultural norm are seeing some signs of success as the persistent Omicron sub-variants spread throughout their communities.
University of Otago public health professor and epidemiologist Michael Baker said underlying the widespread acceptance of masks in some counties was a sense of personal responsibility to protect others from Covid-19.
"I'm looking at the countries that appear, on paper, to be keeping their mortality very low - despite having lots of circulating virus, and it's basically the Asian countries, particularly Japan, South Korea, Singapore," he said.
Baker said Singapore was a good comparison.
"They did have elimination for a long time, and then they decided that it wasn't compatible for their economic model so they switched to allowing transmission. And, really, they're still keeping case numbers and, particularly, deaths down," he said.
While several infection-control specialists have warned that fatigue around Covid-19 control measures is likely contributing to the spread of Omicron in both Australia and New Zealand, the World Health Organization has urged countries seeing surges in the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants to accelerate vaccine uptake and bring back mask-wearing.
New Zealand has a much wider mask mandate than Australia but, even if face coverings are required, there is no established culture of wearing them.
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So would living in a bubble, but no one thinks that’s a good way to live.
Those control freaks have it bad. Real bad.
Sorry, I am not buying what the so called experts are selling.
When Shinzo Abe was assassinated, what I found that was interesting was that every Japanese was wearing a mask outside for his speech even though it is summer and it was not indoors.
I noticed that. Around here, we have a particular group of folks who still wear masks.
It couldn’t be herd immunity and the fact that the virus is becoming less dangerous as it continues to mutate. No, it has to be the masks. /s
Covidists. Not that many where I am though. Just a couple here and there.
Nonsense.
Habitual mask wearing is probably increasing the occurrence of all kinds of diseases to do with lack of sufficient oxygen and re-breathing in expelled carbon dioxide.
BS
Study after study after study has shown the ineffectiveness of masks. Utter frakin COVID propaganda BS.
Or the fact they don’t shake hands
How’s that doing withs their suicides?
Kids growing up well adjusted, or psychopaths?
Substance abuse and domestic violence all hunky-dory?
Human interactions and friendships what they always were?
Or did you manufacture a fake illness to poison half of the world and destroy human understanding?
You “BLESSED” Soros clowns have wrought the World Wind on the innocents who gave you the riches you now use to oppress us.
[Nearly two-and-a-half years into the Covid-19 pandemic]
Two weeks to flatten the curve
[So would living in a bubble, but no one thinks that’s a good way to live.]
Especially when the Bubble Boy gets ahold of the remote. It’s very frustrating.
I’m sorry but it says “Moops” right here.
New Zealand. Screw that commie country.
Your excellent post:
How’s that doing withs their suicides?
Kids growing up well adjusted, or psychopaths?
Substance abuse and domestic violence all hunky-dory?
Human interactions and friendships what they always were?"
Or did you manufacture a fake illness to poison half of the world and destroy human understanding?
You “BLESSED” Soros clowns have wrought the World Wind on the innocents who gave you the riches you now use to oppress us.
If they are not a communist country yet, they are well on their way to becoming one.
>>>likely
WOW, smoke & mirrors to discover a maybe!
Wear a sprig of garlic around your neck. It also keeps off vampires.
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