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SaintInBucLand said

If you are talking about our back and forth about the restaurant lunacy, then yes, I was indeed ridiculing the absolute non-science that was taking place by those practices. As Sparkle said, it's absolute theatre to have people wearing a mask when they walk in the door and to their table, but perfectly fine to remove it while seated.

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The problem there is the notion that it was 'perfectly fine' to remove it while seated. It was never 'perfectly fine'. It was always a risk. But you either allow people to take that risk, or you close all restaurants, because people can't wear masks while they're eating.

They can, however, wear masks when they're not eating, and doing so still offers a reduction in risk through reducing the quantity of potentially virus-carrying particles and droplets exhaled and inhaled, and reducing the distribution of those particles and droplets.

If you look at it in terms of risk reduction and not risk elimination, it's an understandable approach. If you can't do that, it's not, but then, it's not the approach that's the problem there.