09-30-2020, 07:26 AM
The masks work for one simple reason.
Making people wear them in public does more to stop people going out, than any other measure. Its uncomfortable, people dont like wearing them, and lets assume for a moment that they work with 50% capability of stopping the virus (its probably greater than that, but its irrelevant to the point I am going to write) you are better off wearing one than not.
Simple stuff.
The day masks became mandatory was the day my workplace (hospital) emptied of non clinical facing staff. A lot of the essentials all of a sudden became non essential and actually took themselves home to work. Not surprising, I hate wearing one for most of the day and end up isolating myself in an area where I can get away with working on site like I need to, only putting one on when I venture out into the business to work. Why didnt they go earlier? Being hospital staff, and delivering any service be it clinical or not, helps the machine of a hospital work. The staff dont order their own stuff, admin staff do. The staff dont audit things, admin staff do. The staff dont staff themselves, admin staff do. Systems administrators, people delivering key initiatives to transform the patient care experience all of a sudden up and started working from home.
THAT is plenty of good reason to make them mandatory whether they function well or not. This isnt childsplay, its an infectious disease. The front line workers treating covid patients wear an n95, gown, gloves, face shield, and goggles and irrespective of how effective they are, they arent going to go in not wearing one, hoping like hell they aint going to catch covid.
Rita makes some valid points. Heads probably should roll. Jenny was a sacrifical lamb, and irrespective of how you paint it, there should have been some more concrete analysis of what was going on, who was doing it, and how it was going to be implemented. Instead, it was silo'd operations with minimal consultation, and policy on the run. The Andrews government has made some errors here. Glossing over them is not a good look, but we need to ensure that its not change for changes sake, and make sure we understand why we are making said changes.
Jacinda Ardern was front and centre of New Zealands strategy for good or bad. It was not, minister a vs minister b, or premier this or that. SHE was on the front foot. THAT is what leadership looks like. We have had absentee leadership for such a long time, that we have forgotten what it looks like. John Howard was the last competent prime minister we have had, and the rest have all be a revolving door of undermining nitwits who want the top job long enough to qualify for a juicy pension. We the people (read idiots) keep voting in these muppets and they have found the best way to get them all on the gravy train is leadership spill. We havent had a full termer for a very long time, and its about time we started asking for much better candidates because all of them suit the description of NERO.
Making people wear them in public does more to stop people going out, than any other measure. Its uncomfortable, people dont like wearing them, and lets assume for a moment that they work with 50% capability of stopping the virus (its probably greater than that, but its irrelevant to the point I am going to write) you are better off wearing one than not.
Simple stuff.
The day masks became mandatory was the day my workplace (hospital) emptied of non clinical facing staff. A lot of the essentials all of a sudden became non essential and actually took themselves home to work. Not surprising, I hate wearing one for most of the day and end up isolating myself in an area where I can get away with working on site like I need to, only putting one on when I venture out into the business to work. Why didnt they go earlier? Being hospital staff, and delivering any service be it clinical or not, helps the machine of a hospital work. The staff dont order their own stuff, admin staff do. The staff dont audit things, admin staff do. The staff dont staff themselves, admin staff do. Systems administrators, people delivering key initiatives to transform the patient care experience all of a sudden up and started working from home.
THAT is plenty of good reason to make them mandatory whether they function well or not. This isnt childsplay, its an infectious disease. The front line workers treating covid patients wear an n95, gown, gloves, face shield, and goggles and irrespective of how effective they are, they arent going to go in not wearing one, hoping like hell they aint going to catch covid.
Rita makes some valid points. Heads probably should roll. Jenny was a sacrifical lamb, and irrespective of how you paint it, there should have been some more concrete analysis of what was going on, who was doing it, and how it was going to be implemented. Instead, it was silo'd operations with minimal consultation, and policy on the run. The Andrews government has made some errors here. Glossing over them is not a good look, but we need to ensure that its not change for changes sake, and make sure we understand why we are making said changes.
Jacinda Ardern was front and centre of New Zealands strategy for good or bad. It was not, minister a vs minister b, or premier this or that. SHE was on the front foot. THAT is what leadership looks like. We have had absentee leadership for such a long time, that we have forgotten what it looks like. John Howard was the last competent prime minister we have had, and the rest have all be a revolving door of undermining nitwits who want the top job long enough to qualify for a juicy pension. We the people (read idiots) keep voting in these muppets and they have found the best way to get them all on the gravy train is leadership spill. We havent had a full termer for a very long time, and its about time we started asking for much better candidates because all of them suit the description of NERO.
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