Quote Originally Posted by 1959_60 View Post
None of us are medical experts, so I am happy to follow their lead. Across the world people are being advised to wear masks. I don't feel competent to argue with them.
Face masks have been around a long time in medical and scientific establishments, I was sure that by early 2020 virtually everything that needed to be known about them and their uses was known, so like you 59, not being a medical expert, I listened carefully to what the experts said about them. There were about 100 daily televised press briefings over a period of 3 months covering April, May and June, I listened to what every medical expert had to say about keeping safe, not once in that lengthy period did any of them advise wearing face masks, not once. Just twice journos asked about them, once to Van Tamm, once to Harries, both of them clearly stated that they did not recommend wearing them, and these are two of the most eminent medical experts in the country.

So after three months of listening to the experts and not finding a single one in all that time who said there was any point wearing one, I was intrigued to find there was some pressure building up to persuade government to recommend they be worn. The clamour for them seemed to be coming from various Facebook and Twitter groups with support especially on the BBC and Guardian website. Boris hadn't been wearing one and kept being asked about it, then one day he appeared in public wearing one, when asked why he muttered something about new evidence, and turned away, without explaining just what this new evidence was. The WHO which had been saying the same as our experts, that they were a waste of time, suddenly changed it's mind, and began to advocate wearing them, I saw just one interview with a WHO official who when asked why this change, said they had come under political pressure to change their advice, he didn't say from where or from whom this pressure came.

So there we are 59, like you, I was happy to follow the lead of the medical experts, but their expert opinion and advice suddenly, almost overnight, was rubbished and overturned, and we were forced to wear them, for reasons I have yet to comprehend. And now another report by medical experts is being suppressed, no doubt because it confirms the original expert advice on face masks.

You tell me what's going on 59, because I have no idea.