Originally Posted By: lambada
I'm also a primary teacher and we start back teaching on Monday. I know it's not popular, but I strongly recommend face masks. We all wear them in Hong Kong, except for a few stubborn expatriates, and it does seem to reduce the contagion. You'd need to read up on it to get the full picture. The locals here are hard wired to wear masks post SARS which really shook folk up as the mortality rate was way worse than Covid.


Most folks here have abandoned masks and last night our local news channel featured interviews with tourists from up north who traveled south to escape the much stricter safeguard regulations there and they refuse to wear masks down here. We have masks and do wear them in businesses and other places that require them.


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