Check this out, might give some people here ideas about masks and wearing them.

That's the kind of thinking I like! Why are we so afraid to get tough with people?

Between self-esteem as a right rather than earned by doing right, and personal responsibility going by the wayside, it is simply nobody's fault.

Tony
 
Interesting but hardly the general practice in Indonesia. It has happened in one village in Cerme district of East Java Province because they were short on grave diggers.

Because the link was to FOX I followed a link within the OP's post to SBS News, a news source Australians are familiar with. It is the same story but with a different photo of the grave diggers.

Going off subject a bit I found a portal at the bottom of the page to country by country current COVID data. I looked up Australia and found a graph that shows very clearly how we are currently experiencing a second wave that is worse than the first. US never really got the first wave under control and the second wave is on top of the first. Indonesia doesn't have anything under control - the infection rate continues to rise steadily.

Masks are considered a fourth order means of control. More powerful approaches are hygiene and cleaning, restriction of movement, widespread testing, social isolation, border control and quarantining. Unfortunately, when daily infection rates are above a certain level indicating exponential spread, then closure of certain businesses and limits to the number of people permitted in a given space are very important to allow for social distancing. Masks help but they are not a magic bullet. To get the shops and the schools open, the planes flying and tourism in full swing requires everyone to do their bit and co-operate with whatever we are asked to do. It also requires us not to do what we are not supposed to do. It is modified behaviour on a massive scale that will control the pandemic. IMO punishing people for not wearing a mask is not going to do much more than get people's back up, making them and others less co-operative and more rebellious. Breaking quarantine is much more serious.
 
I think the punishment is highly appropriate. I think they also should have to see who these people were that died and what the devastation was to the family of the victims.
 
On the other hand, it's mandatory to wear a mask at all times in France. And they're seeing a spike in cases, up to 10,000 a day. (Many more than the US on a per capita basis.)

I'm a non-confrontational person so I wear a mask in public places. But I don't think it accomplishes much. The thing will run its course no matter what we do.
 
I go by the law, which is clear enough. Same end result.

I haven't seen a good scientific explanation for the upturn in cases in heavily masked France and Spain.
 
I go by the law, which is clear enough. Same end result.

I haven't seen a good scientific explanation for the upturn in cases in heavily masked France and Spain.
We know what happens here, even if we aren't sure about France and Spain. People deny the orders. They get together in groups, and then we have serious upticks. They have parties, especially the lethally young. Human beings have the same levels of stupidity everywhere. Denial kills people. It's like telling the little kid not to put it's hand on the stove burner. Some of them don't learn until they do that, and it burns the crud out of their hands. My cousin did that. He learned about burners.
 

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