oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Masks are not needed for healthy people, but you should at least try to have a box of them for whoever is sick to wear.
Your whole post was good sense, I reckon, and I would like to make extra comment about the masks (and cleansers).
Yes, a person feeling ill and needing to get home should use one.
Yes, a person who habitually face-touches could use one.
Etc.......
In addition to the above, do you trust what our heads of health are telling us in some Western countries?
1. The head of one country belittled the sickness last week, claiming that it was being over-stated by political opposition in an election year.
2. Soon after that the same country's head of health recently dismissed face-masks with some comment like 'Skip the masks....'
3. Where I live there is a big news article that our advertising standards agency has banned two adverts about face masks for being misleading.
4. There is a tendency to 'little-down' hand cleansers and to 'big-up' hand washing, a strange idea in this land where hand basins are as rare as public toilets.
Many of us don't trust these guides, and this is why:-
The 'condition' of millions of people on streets, buses, trains, in offices, factories and shops all wearing face masks could impact the minds of the people to such an extent that levels of alarm will be magnified, and commerce, industry, travel, retail and stocks would all be affected further than at present.............. to 'play down masks' could be an order from our leaders.
The hand cleanser situation is such that alcohol based hand cleanser is almost unavailable and our chemists are rationing sales. So... 'play down hand cleanser' and push up 'hand washes' could be an order from our leaders.
But around here (Kent UK) most folks are not listening. People are making their own hand cleanser with surgical spirit or alcohol bases because they realise that there will not be any hand basins where they would need to wash hands! Simple.
And the shelves of our shops have been emptied of masks.
It is evident that many folks do not believe what they are being told about 'cleansers are 2nd choice' and 'masks are dumb' ....... especially when all surgeries, hospitals and travelling medics have been equipped with them.
Is it that our countries are more frightened of alarming scenes of thousands of masks which could further affects all our markets?
I wonder.