In this our third pandemic winter, government decrees telling us what to do to avoid the virus are as popular as a coughing fit in a lift. | Chip Le Grand | ANALYSIS covid19 masks pandemic
When we were chasing doughnuts, it was the exception, rather than the rule, that mattered.
When more than 2 million Victorians have had the virus and, according to the Department of Health’s best estimates, the true number of active cases in Victoria is somewhere between 195,000 and 260,000, exceptions don’t matter so much. The premier’s office was not particularly happy with the wording of the joint missive from the Department of Education, Independent Schools Victoria and the Catholic Education Commission sent to school principals on Monday, but it does support a community-level push for greater mask wearing in schools.
As long as some, if not most, children do what their schools are now asking of them, fewer cases of COVID, the flu and RSV will be passed around the classroom, fewer children will infect their parents or grandparents, and just maybe, fewer people will end up in hospital with severe COVID.
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