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Originally Posted by Hehe
I've said it before, but I think it's definitely worth repeating again.
Stop urging people to use masks and focus on track and tracing!
We are already at a stage where people who would use masks are already using, and people who wouldn't, probably still wouldn't unless absolutely required and enforceable (on public transportation, going into stores... etc. The enforceability is refusal of service)
By continuing the whole mask argument only create a sense of fake security. By having a mask on, it doesn't mean that you are 100% protected. There are many other variables that come into play... not to mention that the quality of masks we are having are questionable at best.
We need to start following successful countries like Taiwan or South Korea... take our pick on the method and follow through.
South Korea basically test every single person and try to isolate anyone infected.
Taiwan focuses heavily on track and tracing with major public hubs (school, subway, train station... etc) armed with body temp reading everywhere. As soon as there's any elevated reading, the person needs to be tested as well as those who came into close proximity.
If we don't do that, as twitchyzero said... we might as well open the border... our condition aren't that much better than our neighbor states if not worse considering all the testing, rates... etc that get factor into. Our effort attempting to suppress it is also not exactly better. Only comparing to WA, their curve has basically stabilized for the last 30+ days... and if you take out Seattle, which is the epicenter of the pandemic in WA, all our direct neighboring counties are doing probably better than any part of lower mainland.
For all the cry how fucked up US is doing, we might want to really think whether we are actually doing anything better than them if everything else being equal (test rates, health care capacity... etc)
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All those countries also enforced masks. As strictly as necessary (which mostly wasn't necessary, because people aren't stupid enough to go against it because they know it works).
Mask wearing is still the most effective thing we can do. Don't argue against it, it's just stupid to do that.
Track and trace too, but not IN PLACE of masks. That would be stupid. That would be literally ignoring reality, and track and trace would be useless because so many more people would be getting sick.