> On a slight tangent, given that everyone will be required to wear a mask doesn't the risk of spreading/catching the virus diminish thereby eliminating the nee

> On a slight tangent, given that everyone will be required to wear a mask doesn't the risk of spreading/catching the virus diminish thereby eliminating the need for the distance rule? We have good evidence that 2 metre distancing works. We strongly think that mask wearing is effective, but we fail to find benefits from mask wearing when we run RCTs. We have a government who has been pushing a herd immunity strategy (even if they dropped that phrasing) and this kind of thing just makes that clear.