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If the only possibility for sick people is to either come, or stay home, then I think there will always be some of them that would prefer to come even though th

If the only possibility for sick people is to either come, or stay home, then I think there will always be some of them that would prefer to come even though they might contaminate others. In Asia, there is a culture of wearing face masks when you're sick. This serves as both a signal to others, and also helps reduce your infected droplet emission. Also it means you can still go to events and not have to stay home. Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Once the critical mass of people decide to do so, then people won't feel weird about it and will all start to take that habit.

scruple 7y ago
My (Asian-American) wife wears a mask at work because half of the people around her are sick. A few of the other Asian folks in her office do the same thing. No idea about the effectiveness of wearing a mask as protection, but if I had to go into an office for work I would do the same thing during flu season, weird or not.
ssivark 7y ago
> Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Part of the problem is that people might get (subtly) shames/shunned for being out and about with a cold if they turn up wearing a mask. So they get pushed into the less obvious but more pernicious solution. (A measure that is managed ceases to be a useful measure)