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> Keeping distance seems much more effective than masks. In reality, I've seen that when masks became common place people partially reverted back to flocking to
by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Keeping distance seems much more effective than masks. In reality, I've seen that when masks became common place people partially reverted back to flocking together and not respecting a good radius of personal space anymore. Masks probably won't hurt if you need to be close to other people but it would be much, much better to keep the distance in the first place.
I've noticed this when visiting the shops daily when I get my lunch. Before mask were mandated, almost everyone kept each other at a distance. Since mask wearing people have barely bothered.
I've mentioned this to friends on my discord server. Some are from Europe or elsewhere in the UK and they have noticed the same.
- mdorazio 6y agoIs it not possible that this is a time-related effect rather than a mask-related one? As the pandemic has gone on over the last 6+ months, people have grown tired of the measures, especially given the low mortality rates in most places. For your point to be true, you'd have to compare mask wearing and not mask wearing practices at basically the same point in time rather than weeks or months apart.
- forest_dweller 6y agoYou could be right, it could be a combination of both. We probably won't ever know for sure.