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Austria[0] and Germany[1, edit: this seems to only be true for Bavaria and Berlin, see comments below] have mandated the use of FFP2 masks since the end of Janu

Austria[0] and Germany[1, edit: this seems to only be true for Bavaria and Berlin, see comments below] have mandated the use of FFP2 masks since the end of January. Their neighboring countries didn't[2]. If you look at the data, there does not appear to be a decrease in infection numbers relative to their neighbors after the switch to FFP2[3]. [0] https://orf.at/stories/3197782/ https://orf.at/stories/3197782/ [1] https://www.focus.de/finanzen/recht/verschaerfte-massnahmen-der-grosse-ueberblick-wann-und-wo-die-ffp2-masken-pflicht-bei-ihnen-gilt_id_12898148.html https://www.focus.de/finanzen/recht/verschaerfte-massnahmen-... [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/26/960893423/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public?t=1620762628339 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0... [3] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-12-31..latest&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=New+per+day&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=AUT~DEU~CZE~HUN~POL~FRA~CHE~SVK~ITA~DNK~BEL~NLD https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

saddlerustle 5y ago
Germany hasn't required FFP2 masks, the state of Bavaria did (which includes only 15% of the german population)
- 1ris 5y ago
  Germany requires FFP2 masks OR op masks. Public transportation requires FFP2, vouchers for FFP2 masks have been issued (huge cash grab for pharmacies, but thats a different story). They are ubiquitous. I just went shopping and all customers wore a ffp2 mask. The cashier was behind totally useless (see: aerosols) plastic shielding and didn't wear any mask thou.
  - throwaway894345 5y ago
    Apropos of very little, I was in Tennessee recently and at nearly every establishment, the personnel wore their facemasks around their chin, presumably to nominally satisfy some corporate mandate. I say this more as an amusing observation than an implicit judgment one way or another.
  - geoduck14 5y ago
    Why was the plastic shielding useless?
    - 1ris 5y ago
      Because covid spreads via aerosols, not via droplets. If you could smell a perfume, covid is transmissible. The shielding was just a pice a plastic hanging from the ceiling, not some kind of box. So the cashier was breathing the same air as everybody else.
- DemocracyFTW 5y ago
  Not right, in Berlin FFP2 is required in supermarkets, on the train and so on. This may be because the individual state not the federal government set up the rule, but there you go.

saddlerustle 5y ago

Germany hasn't required FFP2 masks, the state of Bavaria did (which includes only 15% of the german population)

1ris 5y ago
Germany requires FFP2 masks OR op masks. Public transportation requires FFP2, vouchers for FFP2 masks have been issued (huge cash grab for pharmacies, but thats a different story). They are ubiquitous. I just went shopping and all customers wore a ffp2 mask. The cashier was behind totally useless (see: aerosols) plastic shielding and didn't wear any mask thou.
- throwaway894345 5y ago
  Apropos of very little, I was in Tennessee recently and at nearly every establishment, the personnel wore their facemasks around their chin, presumably to nominally satisfy some corporate mandate. I say this more as an amusing observation than an implicit judgment one way or another.
- geoduck14 5y ago
  Why was the plastic shielding useless?
  - 1ris 5y ago
    Because covid spreads via aerosols, not via droplets. If you could smell a perfume, covid is transmissible. The shielding was just a pice a plastic hanging from the ceiling, not some kind of box. So the cashier was breathing the same air as everybody else.
DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Not right, in Berlin FFP2 is required in supermarkets, on the train and so on. This may be because the individual state not the federal government set up the rule, but there you go.