Sure, to an extent but that is countered by people having the virus for shorter time.
Sure compared to France these last 6 months the chance of a mutation occuring in the UK is higher due to the greater numbers infected but not vastly so.
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Unless everybody is wearing medical grade PPE. it’s kind of irrelevant.
That is so selfish, what about those with comorbilities and have had the vaccin?
Your saying fuck them as well and it includes me!
Well, perfect for a really nasty one. But I recently read a fascinating find - the rate of mutation appears to have levelled off almost everywhere. The theory is that the Delta variant has just about exhausted the possibilities of that strain, and no other variants are establishing themselves.
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I’ll take that as a glimmer of light at the end of a very long tunnel.
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It’s the ‘Swiss cheese’ idea of prevention. Cloth masks provide one layer of transmission reduction, granted not as effective as N95 masks (‘medical grade’ as in surgical masks are actually rather crap). Vaccines provide another, quite effective layer of protection. There really is no basis to simply choose only one.
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My glimmer of light is under 12 vaccinations. Right now, it still feels like sort of like March 631st, 2020, although times are much better now than they have been.
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I wear FFP2 grade masks, which are very effective, apparently. And no, continuing to wear a mask is not irrelevant.
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The thing I like about masks is it increases awareness, the complete opposite to the vaccin in that sense. The vaccin really being I’m alright jake so fuck everyone else, which isn’t true anyway and certainly doesn’t help the situation.
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I think I’m Rorschack in mine
As Arminius says, masks are mostly about reducing your chances of passing on what might be a mild virus for you but what could be deadly for someone you pass it onto.
Anybody that makes an argument for only one method of protection I guess are the sort of people that disable ABS and airbags on their car because, hey, ‘seatbelts are enough. We need to trust them’.
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So do I, I never stoped wearing them in supermarkets or shops altough it was not mandatory anymore in Holland. Now it is again but that is only since a week.
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You’ll need to explain that word to me please.
Faarrk. Do you live on Neso or something?
To me these masks are doing very little if you also allow people to congregate in restaurants and bars. First, mask behavior is very hit and miss. I still see many people with their noses uncovered, etc. This virus is so contagious, if people are congregating, it is circulating. Now that we know vaccination doesn’t keep one from being a transmitter of the virus, it seems to me the virus is truly endemic now and will continue to circulate effectively.
There also seems a restrictions fatigue. I’m reading this about the protests in Europe. I wonder if these renewed restrictions will have an impact in elections in Europe. I don’t see any European polling so have no idea how the majority of voters feel about these issues. Here in the U.S., I think lockdowns and vaccine card checks would be very ill-received among a large percentage of voters. We will have to see. Cases are on the rise here again, but most people don’t see the effects of the contagion on a daily or even monthly basis.
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Shocked by lack of mask wearing in the UK.
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I’m saddened by it, but by no means shocked. This is the same public that voted for Brexit and Bozo.
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After this long, people still treating risk as a binary issue (vaccines work ot they dont. If you dont have the best masks you may as well do nothing) have either lived under a rock or are trolling.
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