"'Masks work,' says Dr. Robert Murphy, professor of medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. 'If you’re interested in public health, requiring masks in places like hospitals is what we need to do. If everybody is wearing a mask, it works even better to prevent transmission of disease.'
"Hospitals aren't the only places vulnerable people gather, so Murphy suggests mask mandates could be extended to long-term care facilities and assisted living spaces. He also believes mask requirements in these settings should become a regular feature every year during respiratory season. 'It’s probably a very good idea, from a public health standpoint, to say that this is something that happens every winter from December to February,' he says. 'It just makes common sense. If universal masking is never going to be accepted at this point, let’s protect the most vulnerable, and hospitals are places where there are a lot of vulnerable people.'
And yet, he also says this:
"Murphy is also aware that 'people in the U.S. are very nervous about getting into wider mask mandates.' While masks make sense in the health care setting, public health experts aren’t naïve enough to believe that they will return to other public places. 'People are fed up,' says Torriani. 'And we have to ask, ‘What’s the bang for the buck?’ In settings where there might not be as many vulnerable people, the payback for the inconvenience of wearing a mask is likely much lower."
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This article starts out well but then gets into the old "people are fed up with masks" excuse. What people should be fed up with is having COVID, and masks help to protect them.
And exactly what is the "inconvenience of wearing a mask"? I wear one so I won't have the inconvenience of getting sick!
Even after four years of COVID, it appears that people still have their priorities all wrong.
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