Originally Posted by LonghornDXB

Somehow masks are not recommended in Australia, just like they were not in the US and Europe 2-3 months back....

People gulp up whatever media "tells" them to do, in this case, backed up by somber looking scientists talking about "following science".

(Though not all reports agree, people always tend to cherry pick)

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...sed-sound-data

If a similar campaign is launched for gloves, you can give it 3-4 weeks, and people will say "gloves help prevent sickness, because they are used in operating theatres"

On a similar vein, we can look at the "6 feet apart or 6 feet under" crowd. People literally believe that if they are less than 6 feet apart from each other, they will catch the virus and die, choosing to ignore that a minority of the population is affected, and out of them the fatality rate is less than 1 or 2 in a 100.