06-09-2022, 09:57 AM
(05-09-2022, 06:53 PM)harm_less Wrote:(05-09-2022, 05:41 PM)Zurdo Wrote: We weren't wearing them when the rest of the world was...now we are wearing them when the rest of the world isn't. We will always lag behind because of our position on the globe.And that delay allowed us to learn from the experiences of other nations in their COVID strategies, which we used to our distinct advantage.
Yes. We were ahead of the rest of the world in our lockdown phase which gave us time to get vaccinated and respond to the information coming out from the rest of the world. That was what heralded the change from the panic about fomite (surface) transmission that we had initially and into the understanding that masks were a better tool. Our numbers are still well lower than many of those of countries we like to compare ourselves with, and would probably have been even lower if everyone here had taken vaccination and mask wearing seriously and done them properly.