Is it worth investing in ventilation and filtration if you have a population that will not accept mask mandates or will not voluntarily uptake masks?
YES.
No, you won’t be able to stop close range transmission with vent/filtration alone.
You will however be increasing the margin of safety of those that do wear a respirator. That will likely be those that perceive themselves to be at risk.
There may also be a benefit of reducing long range transmission, slowing outbreaks.
Reduced viral load exposure has also been associated with milder disease in animal models. Possible this may hold true for humans as well.
It is very good that you are recommending NPI’s to bridge the gap between vaccinations (chasms) however most people in real life have no idea how to protect themselves properly and will therefore get infected and die anyway.
We need automated contact tracing. Supported iso. Mask mandates or heavy public health messaging re masks. We still need those ventilation regulations upgraded.
This is not the time to say “oh stuff it I’m retiring, I can’t be asked…”
We don’t even have the luxury of grieving our losses yet. The pandemic is still on!
(Rt Hon Brad Hazzard)
We need to get back on the line, get back into parliament and seriously debate things so we can pass into law long term protections for humans against SARS.
@1goodtern You wouldn’t believe this, but literally this morning someone has said to me “I just can’t shake this… first a chest infection, and now a urine infection…”
Not even half an hour ago.
@1goodtern Someone else I know (v close) has had three eye infections post COVID.
Another has had a deterioration in their fertility, as compared to their baseline pre and post covid. Measured.
@1goodtern It’s almost as if the stuff in the science papers is real. 👀
“A conscientious objection is based on sincerely-held beliefs and moral concerns, not self-interest or discrimination.”
To apply this to wearing masks in healthcare @Ahpra implies that wearing a mask is a matter of belief/morality?
I mean… it could be… but when one persons belief could kill another?
Patients are often vulnerable.
There is some actual science behind keeping ones respiratory secretions to oneself. There is a real danger posed by the fervent belief that we must not wear a mask, especially in healthcare.
Prolonged fever is an indication for a proper search for a bacterial secondary infection and a time to think about secondary autoimmune conditions, some of which are lethal (MIS-C/Kawasaki etc.)