Originally Posted by
KARFA
No, as noticed vaccinations comprise several layers of protection, including resistance to infection, resistance to getting ill once infected, and resistance to transmission - the latter was one we were not sure about at the start of the program but has subsequently been show to be very effective with the vaccines.
If you want to rely on your swiss cheese model, why are you not worried about all the other layers of protection which have been gradually removed since the end of March? There are many settings for weeks/months where you can mix with multiple households without face masks, and yet no one seems remotely bothered about that. As noted children have been mask free for nearly two months and no one seems to think that is terrible.
This change from 19 July really isn't as controversial as a few people seem to think. I am sure they will not just disappear completely overnight, but people will exercise some judgement about perhaps where they feel they want to wear them - as they have done historically in Asia which you noted originally.
Thanks for giving me credit for the Swiss Cheese model but it’s the standard model almost every country follows, including the U.K. (until 19 July).
And as for the 19 July changes not being “as controversial as a few people think”, I think that’s somewhat of an understatement. I’ll leave with the WHOs view on the complete rollback of restrictions as “moral emptiness and epidimiological stupidity”.