OT - to mask or not to mask........

[ramAnag]

I don't remember going to schools where people are drunk and are standing shoulder to shoulder, having lost all sense of reasoning.

But that’s the whole point Ram. That isn’t happening now because preventative steps have been taken.
I’ve been in two pubs in the last fortnight. In the first, as MA describes in the Neptune, everyone had to be seated at socially distanced tables. In the second we were only allowed to sit in semi enclosed ‘pods’ in the garden. Owners know that if they break the rules or there’s an outbreak traced back to them they’ll be shut again.
Social distancing was happening in schools before the summer holidays, but the requirement for all children to return to school is unrealistic.
Class sizes of 20-30+ and social distancing are incompatible...simple as that. Add in the number of contacts each child makes with parents, siblings and grandparents etc and the possible consequences just haven’t been thought through.
The problem has, as ever, just been ‘kicked down the road’ until it rears its ugly head again in September.