Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Facing each other or not, cab drivers and their passengers are sitting in a confined space in taxis and that close confinement increases the odds of getting hit by this virus and getting hit worse by this virus. It's no coincidence that there are various places in the world where taxi cab drivers are heavily over-represented in the ranks of those who have been hospitalized with Covid-19 (or worse). Taxi drivers and their passengers would both be safer from this virus when all occupants of a vehicle are masked and the windows of the vehicle remain open for the duration of being in the vehicle. The OMAAT blogger making an issue about the masks may just happen to protect the health and well-being of not only the passengers of a taxi but also the taxi drivers; and a taxi driver wearing a mask may even help the taxi driver to get or retain business that the taxi driver may not have otherwise get.
Pity that Ben and his husband wore those valve face masks during the first stage of their unnecessary Turkey trip...
My beef with Ben is how he reports on gutter-press stories and is, at many times, totally tone deaf to sensitivities, ethics and public feeling. He writes articles without properly researching...rambles on about topics which are out of his depth and he can't bear to hear any criticism. He strikes me as someone who wouldn't tell you what he thinks about you in person, but would gladly share everything in writing...and he is not even a good writer to be honest...