I do become cynic, but mainly when I’m thinking about the long timescales involved between “thinking from first principles” over “risk/benefit analysis” and “scientific consensus” to “political rule-making”. On the level of individuals, I’m becoming more and more ok with people “engaging in socially approved rituals against COVID-19”. When institutions like the WHO and the CDC, or like the RKI and the STIKO in Germany, often fail at proper reasoning, we can’t expect normal people to do better.
Concerning the security people with less masking: Accodring to the German work protection law and the “DGUV Regel 112–190”, employees need to have a break of 30 minutes without ANY mask after wearing a non-ventilated FFP2 mask for 75 minutes. This is not feasible in the average workplace environment, so there is no practical way to enforce FFP2 mask use, as employers would need to grant those 30 minutes. Apart from nurses and doctors in direct contact with COVID-positive patients, even hospitals only mandate surgical masks for all staff.
I do become cynic, but mainly when I’m thinking about the long timescales involved between “thinking from first principles” over “risk/benefit analysis” and “scientific consensus” to “political rule-making”. On the level of individuals, I’m becoming more and more ok with people “engaging in socially approved rituals against COVID-19”. When institutions like the WHO and the CDC, or like the RKI and the STIKO in Germany, often fail at proper reasoning, we can’t expect normal people to do better.
Concerning the security people with less masking: Accodring to the German work protection law and the “DGUV Regel 112–190”, employees need to have a break of 30 minutes without ANY mask after wearing a non-ventilated FFP2 mask for 75 minutes. This is not feasible in the average workplace environment, so there is no practical way to enforce FFP2 mask use, as employers would need to grant those 30 minutes. Apart from nurses and doctors in direct contact with COVID-positive patients, even hospitals only mandate surgical masks for all staff.