Health Experts Everywhere: We Need Mask Mandates! Government Officials: No!

Health experts everywhere are crying our for mask mandates and urging people to wear theirs as COVID-19 numbers climb and hospitals are, once again, overrun. Honestly how did fucking pieces of cloth get so politicised? Just put your mask on. Hospitals are increasingly losing staff due to sick leave and 5239 were in hospital with COVID nationwide on Tuesday. In Victoria the number of hospitalisations due to COVID has doubled in less than a month. In Queensland it’s outpaced the worst predictions

Omar Khorshidsaid on Tuesday

“Everything we’ve heard from the Federal Government and various state health ministers and premiers is that they’re not about to introduce mandates.

“But governments are ultimately going to be held to account by the public for their failure to navigate this whole process. At some point I think it’s quite likely we will have a period of mask mandates in certain states.”

Paul KellyAustralia’s third waveMark ButlerDominic Perrottetsaid last week mask mandates were a thing of the past.Daniel Andrews

Andrews said on Wednesday the National Cabinet agreed on Saturday that Australians would not see mask mandates again.

“If you are asking me, is it my view that these rules are going to change? No,” he said.

“I’m not here to comment for other premiers, but I think it is fair to say, from a conversation that went around the [National Cabinet meeting] room, you’re not going to see mask mandates around the country, but you will see consistent advice from government that it is strongly recommended that people wear masks inside, people act on their symptoms, get tested, isolate.”

Ben Cowiebut Victoria’s health minister Mary-Anne Thomasstudies show mask wearing is much higher when there’s a mandate

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