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OT - to mask or not to mask........
...... that is the question.
So far we haven't had to in NL except for on public transport. masks on full buses, trams,metro and train make sense to me when folk are up close and personal. Whether it's necessary out in the open where the consensus of medical of opinion is that it's far less transferable there warrants masks is the question. IMO, if folk keep to the stipulated distance, it shouldn't be necessary but people are, increasingly congregating, making places very busy and in those circumstances masks might be a help.
Thanks to a couple of hot spots, the R number here has now risen to 1.29 and that has led a group of 7 specialists to write to the government recommending the use of face masks in all public spaces including on the street. Not sure how that would work in a bar or restaurant though.
Do masks help? there are 2 different schools of thought. One is that they don't and, what else, one that they do. You can't get round the fact that face masks do not prevent you getting droplets in the eye and possibly catching CV-19 that way. They may not stop you inhaling droplets, they may. However, they may well stop many of the droplets you breathe out reaching others. This photo might be photoshopped but it does show what many think the benefit of masks is......
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