Virus's And Face Coverings

[nailit]

If face coverings are effective at preventing the spread of virus's such as Covid, then should we now expect to see a fall, this winter, of influenza cases?
If not why not?

[jno]

jim, I imagine you're right; but South Korea isn't a secret society. Other countries could have asked them how to do it. Perhaps they did, considering that their neighbours are doing pretty well.

And Britain might have known what to do, given that they'd recently run an exercise, and carred out a bigger one a dozen or so years ago. Did anyone think "Let's look at what the conclusions were?"

[jim360]

I was considering adding something to that effect, although it's possible that either our Government (and others) didn't notice, or simply didn't care, or decided that because MERS was a relatively small-scale outbreak it didn't matter.

[Peter Pedant]

yes no Jim
your non sequitur spotter was off
and you missed the non sequitur
that even hem hem some of my epidemiologist colleagues missed also in their enthusiams to reduce:
covid = MERS = flu = piffle

and that is corona viruses Mers and Sars were primarily human to human so that by strict isolation, and attention to clean tecnic, you can control it

we know you cant in Covid
( dread words - it is in the community)

I cant recollect WHICH prof of epidemiology confused the two this week -

there is far too much of senior doctors sitting in their offices shuffling papers and coming out with Blah de Blah because they are too keen to spout outside their speciality

[Peter Pedant]

// Did anyone think "Let's look at what the conclusions were?"//
yes they did
big peak of infection, need for ventilator beds,
ventilate until they get better which will inevitably happen and without long term sequelae

and in binary what happened was yes-no-no-no