When is this mask nonsense going to end? That should DEFINITELY be on the list. You know, so our Governor can more credibly play the role of someone who cares about the State he has been running into the ground.
“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
Experts agree–or agreed, until it became politically convenient to contradict what they had been saying in some cases just weeks before–that OUTSIDE A MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT MASKS DO ALMOST NOTHING. And absent 1) an infected person; 2) close quarters, and 3) sustained contact, masks do literally nothing. Zip. Nada.
This whole thing is nonsense. It is theater designed to alleviate the anxiety of the anxious, but if DATA and SCIENCE are the metric, then all this needs to end tomorrow.