Covid tests

I can't say that I like wearing a mask and I didn't wear one over the summer, apart from a few indoor spaces, such as the hospital.

However, I've started wearing one again when I go into shops or travel by public transport. It doesn't bother me in the slightest if I'm the only person wearing a mask.

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No, Aveline, they don't make a difference. Just think about it. Hospitals are one of the places where people are most likely to catch covid. And yet they are also the place where people have to wear masks - doctors, nurses, patients, visitors, health workers, etc. Why isn't all this mask-wearing stopping people from catching it, then??

What absolute nonsense!

People in hospitals are catching Covid because other patients don't wear them properly. Medical staff have to be in close contact with some of their patients and it only takes a short lapse for transmission to take place.

How can any physical barrier not cut the risk of an airborne virus from being transmitted? It defies logic to think that it doesn't.

People in hospitals are catching Covid because other patients don't wear them properly. Medical staff have to be in close contact with some of their patients and it only takes a short lapse for transmission to take place.

What absolute nonsense!

People in hospital are catching covid (if indeed they are) because they are vulnerable. Wearing masks cuts down the chances of catching or transmitting covid, and other things as well.

Its really not that hard to understand.

If you are in a hospital, or a heath centre or so on, wear your mask. Because the other people there are, by definition, vulnerable.

I've seen a lot of dodgy reasoning on GN today. It is something in the water?

It seems that our patients are all tested on admission. Some are then found to have Covid but may or may not have symptoms. Infection control springs into action and depending on the number affected the ward may be closed to visitors. Of course some also have Flu or RSV.
I'm quite happy to wear a mask etc.

Isn't the advice, so far, to wear a mask in public places if you are ill?
Surely that's not a terrible thing to ask, given that there is evidence it reduces the spread of infection.

If I go anywhere busy, which isn't often, I do use a mask although I dislike wearing them, in hopes it might protect me a bit.
It doesn't affect anyone else and it doesn't matter what they might think.

I'd definitely wear a mask if I was ill and absolutely had to go out. Even with just a cold. Just seems fair to other people.