Should mask use be mandated for indoors?

Yes to masks indoors. I'll be wearing mine

Perth's mask rules

 

He also seems to think sunburn is contagious, so...

 

That I can't wait to decide on him.

Yes, it's the seatbelt / speed limit difference. Masks are more like a speed limit for protection of all, not a seat belt to protect the individual.

Interestingly, it's not left to individuals to decide on seat belts OR speed limits...

 

Since you don't have evidence, let's talk anecdotes. I've never come across bacterial pneumonia among the hundreds of all-day-mask wearing healthcare workers I work with?

Also, if rebreathing exhaled air causes bacterial pneumonia, N95s must be much worse than leaky cloth masks? Yet you're promoting N95s. Contradictory?

For the record, I agree that medical masks are better than cloth masks.

 

I’m glad masks are mandated indoors. But I’m equally glad they are not mandated outdoors.

 

Well I have and a doctor that works in emergency that I know has had quite a few presenting this way as well. They test negative for all viruses but suspected B.N. showing on CT scans. I’m not promoting N95 but equally I think the cheap cloth masks are crap. At best the recommendation is that masks need to be changed within 4 hours. Must be a reason for that recommendation you would think, otherwise you would wear the same mask all day right.

 

Ditto. But if someone chooses to wear a mask outdoors, all power to them. I’ve seen people put others down for choosing to wear a mask outdoors, and that’s not on in my book.

 

I voted YES.

I find most people are far better looking when they are wearing their masks

 

Warning - poor taste alert. I see humour in places others may not.

True story:

I have just been to the supermarket and saw a man with no mask.

The thing is, he had no nose.

1. He would have been much better looking if he was wearing a mask.
2. Was he not wearing a mask because he didn’t have a nose to wedge it on?

Apologies to all offended.

 

The mask would help but if they took their clozapine, even better.

 

The wearing of seatbelts have very good data supporting its measure as a safety benefit to drivers and passengers. Speed limits, well in some places they are right, in other areas they are wrong. Advanced driver training skills, better roads and cars, less distractions, there’s a whole of things there that the individual can do to protect themselves and other around them.
Making a correlation between road safety laws and stopping the transmission of an aerosol virus with a cheap cloth wearing is questionable. We have had people being told to wear masks when walking into a club but allowed to take it off when you sit down at a table. We have been told to wear a mask while going for a walk outside with nobody around. We have been told to not talk to our neighbour or look at the sunset. We have been told to not touch the football that bounced over the fence while players are jumping all over each other.
One thing we have learned is that lockdowns don’t work in suppressing the virus, they in fact increase the spread because families were forced to stay inside for hours in close contact and only allowed outside for one hour a day.
We are told that the Pfizer was 94 percent effective of stopping you catch and transmit the virus but now you have to have a third jab after 3 months to keep your job. Two weeks to flatten the curve, BS. Lies, lies and lies.
I have had friends with adverse reactions who are still be coerced to go back for another go, businesses everywhere destroyed, I have done all that has been asked from me and I think it’s time we got passed these mandates. The data out of Scotland and South Africa suggest that the Omicron is 5 times more milder than the Delta, and it’s time for the politicians and the media to stop the scaring of people and instead instil confidence and make sensible recommendations.
I’m sorry if this is a bit long and a rant, but that’s the way I feel about it right now.

 

With the rapid antigen test you could know your health status way before your would get pinged. By the time one gets pinged it’s probably too late. The other option is to check the websites of major stores like Woolworths and Coles as they publish stores that have been exposed to covid quite quickly. Saying that, shops like Coles are at the lower end of infection and one can limit their exposure even more by visiting very early morning or late at night, when there is nobody there. I try to get my vegetables from a farm or order online and get it delivered.
The highest case infections have been at teenager indoor parties and family get together or sitting in a doctor’s surgery waiting for an hour for a 5 minute appointment.

 

I believe it is $100 rebate per test. So 100,000 test per day @ $100 v 100,000 RATs @ $15 each.

 

100% how I feel as well. So many people walking around with it at the moment, you don't know who's got it and who hasn't. If I'm going to be out in public, I'm much more comfortable if everyone is wearing masks, especially the staff in establishments that serve food.