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Borat Says: "Wear Mask. Save Live." (24/10/20)
Unlike some I could mention, including Trump's personal lawyer and mask denier Rudy 'Pants' Giuliani, Borat knows the importance of covering up to help beat Covid-19.
Rudy 'Pants' Giuliani (23/20/20)
Young woman (Maria Bakalova): "Shall we have a drink in the bedroom?"
Rudy Giuliani: (Donald Trump's personal lawyer): "You can give me your phone number and address" (While patting the young woman on the ass).
Rudy Giuliani: lies on bed and puts his hand down his pants.
Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) barges in and demands: '"Shut down your phone - she's 15!"
Rudy Giuliani (later): "I was just tucking in my shirt!".
Farcical Lack Of Leadership Over Face Masks (19/1020)
I have been critical of the Scottish Government's lack of leadership over face masks for months now - going all the way back to the early stages of lockdown when Home Carers in Glasgow were told that they didn't need to cover their faces when visiting clients.
Just recently the Scottish Government took a few more 'baby steps' towards a policy of making face masks compulsory in all public spaces and the latest tightening of the regulations means that people have to wear cafe coverings in workplace corridors and canteens.
But the real question is why the Scottish Government is so timid and wary of grasping this particular nettle - because wearing face masks helps put people on their guard and really ought to become part of our normal everyday routine.
Wearing face masks in public spaces is now the norm across Europe and the purpose is to help prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
So the Scottish Government has followed the lead of the UK Government by announcing that face coverings are to become compulsory on public transport.
The requirement to wear a face covering is not being applied to shops and supermarkets which makes no sense because people infected with the virus but show no symptoms remain free to mix and mingle, at close range, with their fellow citizens.
The Scottish Government is also allowing a number of exemptions to apply - people with breathing difficulties for example - which is crazy if you ask me, because it's obviously dangerous for these individuals to be out in public in the first place.
I think it's fair to say that there has been a farcical lack of leadership from the Scottish and UK governments on the issue of wearing face masks to stop the spread of Covid-19.
The Scottish and UK governments have been dithering for weeks, but from Monday 15 June face masks will become compulsory for all passengers using public transport in England.
The threat posed by people who are infected with Covid-19 without showing symptoms is clear, yet politicians have failed to act by insisting that face masks must be worn in shops and other areas where social distancing is difficult.
The report below in The Herald suggests that face masks may be a problem for people suffering from asthma, but this is simply nonsense because anyone suffering from chronic asthma or a similar condition should be 'shielding' at home instead of being 'out and about'
Coronavirus: Sturgeon considering 'mandatory' face coverings
Farcical Lack of Leadership Over Face Masks (26/08/20)
Wearing face masks in public spaces is now the norm across Europe and the purpose is to help prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
In practice, this means that everyone over 5 wears a face mask when they step out of their front door and the mask stays on until people return home or reach a destination where social distancing is properly organised - in cafes, bars, restaurants and so on.
Politicians in the UK are slowly being persuaded to take the issue much more seriously and face masks are now required to be worn in school corridors and common areas, for example, but not in classrooms.
Also, the policy ceases to apply as soon as teenagers are outside the school gate, unless they get on a bus or a train, of course, where the face mask rules kick back in again.
So surely a better way forward is to require face masks to be worn in all public spaces whether people are out for a walk or en route to the supermarket, place of work, school, university, cafes, bars and restaurants etc.
Farcical Lack of Leadership Over Face Coverings (19/06/20)
So the Scottish Government has followed the lead of the UK Government by announcing that face coverings are to become compulsory on public transport.
The requirement to wear a face covering is not being applied to shops and supermarkets which makes no sense because people infected with the virus but show no symptoms remain free to mix and mingle, at close range, with their fellow citizens.
The Scottish Government is also allowing a number of exemptions to apply - people with breathing difficulties for example - which is crazy if you ask me, because it's obviously dangerous for these individuals to be out in public in the first place.
Farcical Lack of Leadership Over Face Coverings (05/06/20)
I think it's fair to say that there has been a farcical lack of leadership from the Scottish and UK governments on the issue of wearing face masks to stop the spread of Covid-19.
The Scottish and UK governments have been dithering for weeks, but from Monday 15 June face masks will become compulsory for all passengers using public transport in England.
The threat posed by people who are infected with Covid-19 without showing symptoms is clear, yet politicians have failed to act by insisting that face masks must be worn in shops and other areas where social distancing is difficult.
The report below in The Herald suggests that face masks may be a problem for people suffering from asthma, but this is simply nonsense because anyone suffering from chronic asthma or a similar condition should be 'shielding' at home instead of being 'out and about'
Coronavirus: Sturgeon considering 'mandatory' face coverings
By Tom Gordon - The Herald (04/06/20)
Coronavirus: Sturgeon considering 'mandatory' face coverings
NICOLA Sturgeon has said she is considering making face coverings mandatory in shops, public transport and enclosed spaces amid fears too few people are wearing them.
The First Minister said she thought the measure would be “inevitable”, although she added no final decision had yet been made.
Earlier this week, Ms Sturgeon also threatened to legislate to clamp down on travel and socialising after mass breaches of the guidance when the lockdown eased last Friday.
Countries in which face coverings are common, such as South Korea, have seen far fewer Covid deaths than the UK.
The Scottish Government first advised people to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport on April 28 to help guard against spreading the coronavirus.
However this has always been voluntary, not compulsory.
At the Scottish Government daily briefing, th First Minister announced another nine people had died overnight from coronavirus in Scotland, taking the laboratory confirmed total to 2,395.
She said this was the first time deaths had been in single figures on a week day (when reporting is more comprehensive than at weekends) since March 27.
She also said the R number, the rate oof reproductions, had dropped slightly from a range of 0.7 to 1 to a range of 0.7 to 0.9 over the last week.
However she said the latest R number did not take into account the first weekend of the lockdown easing last weekend, when thousands of families met up and road traffic surged 70 per cent.
She stressed Covid remained an ongoing threat and urged households which met outdoors last weekend in the sun not to move indoors if the weather was poor this weekend, as the rate of transmission was far higher indoors than in the open air.
Asked if she was considering making face coverings mandatory, she said: “Yes, it is under consideration. I said when I announced the policy some weeks back that we would kep the policy under review.
"So we haven’t reached a final position on this, but it is fair to say it is something that we are considering. I think that is inevitable.
“I understand why some people may not want to wear face coverings. It’s not the most comfortable thing to do. The scientific advice and evidence on this is not overwhelming, but there is a benefit to be had.
“If you wear a face covering in an enclosed space where physical distancing is a bit more difficult, there is some evidence that you wearing a face covering can protect someone else.
“If you have the virus, and if you’re not symptomatic you may not know it, you can then protect or minimise the risk of your transmitting the virus to somebody else. Of course another person wearing a face mask is protecting you the same way.”
She said wanted to “strongly encourage people” to wear face coverings as advised.
“If you haven’t already been doing it, or if you started to do it, found it uncomfortable and haven’t continued - please, please consider this very carefully, because we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to reduce the risk of transmission.”
She said coverings could be made at home, advised the public against trying to source medical-grade masks needed by the NHS and care sector.
“These are things we encourage people to make at home. You can make these things from cloth, textiles, old T-shirts, for example and there’s plenty of advice out there to do that,” she said.
She said there would be exemptions for health reasons and for some age groups, such as young children, if face coverings did become mandatory.
She said: “For people who have asthma for example it would not be reasonable to insist that they wear face masks. So these are careful judgments and they have to be very carefully considered.
“But as we open up more, particularly as more people go back to work in the future, and more people use public transport, I think that we will want to see people where they can wearing a face covering.
"If we have to change the nature and the status of the advice we’re giving to people to make that happen, that has clearly got to be something that we are prepared to keep under consideration.”
Ms Sturgeon’s comment follow MSPs expressing concern about the number of people following the current non-mandatory guidance.
At Holyrood’s Covid-19 committee on Wednesday, Annabelle Ewing, the SNP MSP for Cowdenbeath, said: “I was at a supermarket last night. I think I was the only person in the entire shop wearing a face covering. I know the message is, that we should be doing this, but evidently more people are not yet doing that.”
Cabinet Secretary Mike Russell agreed there was a problem.
He said: “I have noticed myself, wearing a face covering at a filling station, I was the only person who was doing so. I know there’s an awful of thinking going on about that.
“I would encourage people to wear one, and to wear one when in shops.
“Sometimes I think people think they’re going to be stared at or looked at.
“We should get to the stage where, if everybody’s doing it, then the person who’s not doing it is the person who’s looked at and stared at.
“So I think you’re right, and I think we need to look at that very, very seriously.
“There has been a debate about the efficacy of it, but I think there is a growing public view that we should see it more.”
Coronavirus: Sturgeon considering 'mandatory' face coverings
NICOLA Sturgeon has said she is considering making face coverings mandatory in shops, public transport and enclosed spaces amid fears too few people are wearing them.
The First Minister said she thought the measure would be “inevitable”, although she added no final decision had yet been made.
Earlier this week, Ms Sturgeon also threatened to legislate to clamp down on travel and socialising after mass breaches of the guidance when the lockdown eased last Friday.
Countries in which face coverings are common, such as South Korea, have seen far fewer Covid deaths than the UK.
The Scottish Government first advised people to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport on April 28 to help guard against spreading the coronavirus.
However this has always been voluntary, not compulsory.
At the Scottish Government daily briefing, th First Minister announced another nine people had died overnight from coronavirus in Scotland, taking the laboratory confirmed total to 2,395.
She said this was the first time deaths had been in single figures on a week day (when reporting is more comprehensive than at weekends) since March 27.
She also said the R number, the rate oof reproductions, had dropped slightly from a range of 0.7 to 1 to a range of 0.7 to 0.9 over the last week.
However she said the latest R number did not take into account the first weekend of the lockdown easing last weekend, when thousands of families met up and road traffic surged 70 per cent.
She stressed Covid remained an ongoing threat and urged households which met outdoors last weekend in the sun not to move indoors if the weather was poor this weekend, as the rate of transmission was far higher indoors than in the open air.
Asked if she was considering making face coverings mandatory, she said: “Yes, it is under consideration. I said when I announced the policy some weeks back that we would kep the policy under review.
"So we haven’t reached a final position on this, but it is fair to say it is something that we are considering. I think that is inevitable.
“I understand why some people may not want to wear face coverings. It’s not the most comfortable thing to do. The scientific advice and evidence on this is not overwhelming, but there is a benefit to be had.
“If you wear a face covering in an enclosed space where physical distancing is a bit more difficult, there is some evidence that you wearing a face covering can protect someone else.
“If you have the virus, and if you’re not symptomatic you may not know it, you can then protect or minimise the risk of your transmitting the virus to somebody else. Of course another person wearing a face mask is protecting you the same way.”
She said wanted to “strongly encourage people” to wear face coverings as advised.
“If you haven’t already been doing it, or if you started to do it, found it uncomfortable and haven’t continued - please, please consider this very carefully, because we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to reduce the risk of transmission.”
She said coverings could be made at home, advised the public against trying to source medical-grade masks needed by the NHS and care sector.
“These are things we encourage people to make at home. You can make these things from cloth, textiles, old T-shirts, for example and there’s plenty of advice out there to do that,” she said.
She said there would be exemptions for health reasons and for some age groups, such as young children, if face coverings did become mandatory.
She said: “For people who have asthma for example it would not be reasonable to insist that they wear face masks. So these are careful judgments and they have to be very carefully considered.
“But as we open up more, particularly as more people go back to work in the future, and more people use public transport, I think that we will want to see people where they can wearing a face covering.
"If we have to change the nature and the status of the advice we’re giving to people to make that happen, that has clearly got to be something that we are prepared to keep under consideration.”
Ms Sturgeon’s comment follow MSPs expressing concern about the number of people following the current non-mandatory guidance.
At Holyrood’s Covid-19 committee on Wednesday, Annabelle Ewing, the SNP MSP for Cowdenbeath, said: “I was at a supermarket last night. I think I was the only person in the entire shop wearing a face covering. I know the message is, that we should be doing this, but evidently more people are not yet doing that.”
Cabinet Secretary Mike Russell agreed there was a problem.
He said: “I have noticed myself, wearing a face covering at a filling station, I was the only person who was doing so. I know there’s an awful of thinking going on about that.
“I would encourage people to wear one, and to wear one when in shops.
“Sometimes I think people think they’re going to be stared at or looked at.
“We should get to the stage where, if everybody’s doing it, then the person who’s not doing it is the person who’s looked at and stared at.
“So I think you’re right, and I think we need to look at that very, very seriously.
“There has been a debate about the efficacy of it, but I think there is a growing public view that we should see it more.”
