There is little evidence to support their use. The WHO's April announcement stated At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the c

There is little evidence to support their use. The WHO's April announcement stated At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence. But the growing movement towards mandatory usage continues regardless of the absence of evidence. This morning, the Head of the Royal Society was interviewed on Radio 4 (the BBC's news channel). In response to a question on the absence of scientific trials on efficacy, he responded that requests for such were methodological fetishism, a term I had only previously encountered in the works of Deluze.