Good advice,
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It’s out of date Chris. There should be another line. At the very least it should say:
Over 60 wear a medical grade mask
But quite frankly, if no-one else is wearing a mask - as increasingly they are not, not sure what the WHO hopes to achieve by this, other than it’s incredibly decent of everyone over 60 to protect the rest of the non-mask wearing younger population.
Have another look Sue…there’s a spelling mistake 
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Brilliant! I hadn’t noticed - as you may have gathered. 
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Yup, looks like it will be a problem
Sadly… the rubbish situation… is happening everywhere… the world has gone barmy.
That’s why the human race must die
I always use Intermarché Drive.
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“Delighted” to see WHO wading in again with its two left feet making it easier for people to say “I don’t need to wear a mask”
Headline on the BBC this evening:
"How much coronavirus transmission comes from people with no symptoms is still a “big unknown”, a World Health Organization scientist has clarified."
No doubt in a few months time they will have to do yet another U-turn when Singapore reminds the WHO that two of the earliest arrivals from China back in January were asymptomatic and they infected people in the church in Singapore they attended, including a woman who just sat in the same pew later the same day.
Why can’t “experts” at the WHO just learn to shut up when they don’t really know something. I thought it would take longer for yesterday’s “expert” to have to rescind what she’d said about asymptomatic people, but she’s already had to recant. See today’s headline:
WHO expert backtracks after saying asymptomatic transmission ‘very rare’
Maria Van Kerkhove says she accepts models show up to 40% of infections come from asymptomatic people
The problem with such behaviour is (a) on the one hand the WHO is very well regarded by some people and so everything reported by the WHO is believed (b) every time the WHO says one thing and then says the direct opposite it adds to information overload and people finish up just blanking it out and not knowing who to believe ( c ) it erodes trust in scientific methods and advice at exactly a time when it’s crucially important that “the message” about how to behave in a pandemic does NOT reside in the mouths of politicians of the calibre of Trump and Bolsonaro. AAAHHH! 
Excellent, do they have them on offer !!
+10,000 @John_Scully .
We might be lucky going into autumn/winter if all this mixing of people over next 3-4 months, including incoming tourists, doesn’t throw up a variant that breaks through in the vaccinated.
I know I’m oldfashioned but I have a huge respect for what people went through in the war and the Depression before that. The number of times people in a supermarket, say in the checkout queue, simply refuse to keep distance or let their masks hang and just say “I’m sick of it” really, really annoys me.
Yes I understand but it’s only been 14 months and it’s not just about you. After what our parents and grandparents went through this really annoys me (though I try to make it just disappoint me).
When masks were first advised to be worn, I did my own test.
I wore a mask sitting at a table on which I had lit a candle. I blew as HARD as I could and there was not the slightest flicker from the candle.
Then I blew without the mask, and the candle flickered like nobody’s business! I could have blown it out if I really tried. Breathing normally without a mask had no effect on the candle.
That was proof enough for me that someone sitting opposite me, say, a metre away, would be unlikely to breathe in my breath, while I just breathed normally, and vice versa, while wearing my mask.
I go to supermarkets when mostly empty and I hold my breathe if people come close, passing by, wearing my mask.
Good enough for me and anyone close to me.
Which department do you live in… ???
It’s unclear… are you saying you go into a supermarket masked or unmasked… ??
Charente Maritime. I visit the supermarket when there are the least people shopping, wearing my mask. I’ve edited my first post, sorry I didn’t make my point more clearly.
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France has now caught up with the UK in number of current confirmed cases which is a shame as France was doing much better. Japan is amazingly low.
That said omicron is accelerating in the UK certainly is in my borough as its reported so situation could change rapidly as most cases are still delta in France but it looks as if omicron is not as serious health wise.
1265 confirmed cases of omicron in the UK.
The problem with that is the unexpected moment when someone does something other than breathe normally …
many, many years ago there was an ad on TV asking people to cover their face when they sneeze or cough and it showed that the fine aerosol droplets went the entire length of a train carriage.
Laughter and singing also send breath much further…
…and that’s why it is so important everyone wears a mask properly and why I personally prefer 2 m social distancing as opposed to the much closer proximity the French prefer.
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