Masks should be mandatory on public transport if we’re serious about keeping COVID-19 in check GlobeBC
Scientists are rolling out studies that all show that even non-medical masks help prevent virus transmission. Medical masks are even better. While a homemade mask won’t give you much, if any, protection from contracting the disease, it will help prevent you from spreading it if you are already sick and let loose a cough or sneeze.What we now know is that most people have no symptoms in the earliest stages of infection, the very time when they shed the most virus.
While hair stylists and shopkeepers can set rules for their customers, it’s up to government lay the ground rules on transit. To acknowledge mask-wearing on transit as a best practice and fail to compel follow-through seems contradictory and defeatist. Perhaps Dr. Henry fears an even greater backlash if people are forced to wear masks or visors against their will. Or perhaps she is hoping most British Columbians will heed her advice and mask up on transit, just as they followed her instructions on physical distancing. Given my own shopping experiences, I’m not optimistic. Except in shops like T&T Supermarket, where masks are mandatory, fewer than half the people I see grocery shopping are wearing them.
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