Virtually the entire population of Hong Kong wore masks voluntarily from the beginning. They have had four COVID deaths.
You can come outside now in the city of Los Angeles and move around a bit, and you can go somewhere other than to the supermarket or to work.Mayor Eric Garcetti put out the order that says you need to cover your face even for running, cycling and other athletic activities if you live in the city.If you live in other parts of L.A. County, which has had outdoor mask requirements since mid-April, you’re OK without facial covering as long as nobody is near you.
Eugene’s views aren’t universal, thank goodness. In Long Beach, a retiree named Richard Engel seems to have considerably more faith in the modern scientific establishment. And in masks.Engel emailed me to say he thinks we can learn something about how to confront the coronavirus from the city of Hong Kong, where his niece lives.
It’s a heck of a lot easier to manage a city of 8.5 million than a nation of 300 million people during a pandemic. But with nearly 90,000 deaths in the U.S. so far, I wonder how many lives could have been saved if we had followed Hong Kong’s lead three months ago, or ramped up testing earlyRichard Engel’s sister Viktoria, a retired teacher, told me she routinely sees people socializing without masks when she goes for her daily walks in Belmont Shore.
And if the people wearing masks are protecting you, isn’t it right that you should protect them back?, an emergency room doctor, said he doesn’t have the benefit of social distancing when a patient comes through the doors.
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