South Korea Announces End to Indoor Mask Mandate
Mark your calendars, January 30th will be the end of the indoor mask mandate in South Korea:
An indoor mask mandate, which has been in place for two years and three months in Korea, will end from 12:00 a.m., Jan. 30, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Friday. But the authorities stressed that people will still be required to wear masks at high-risk facilities such as hospitals and on public transport.
Korea Times
The announcement, which comes after three years since Korea confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, represents a major milestone in the government’s shift in its pandemic response to living with the virus.
You can read more at the link, but even with the end of the mandate I suspect it will take another year before people start reverting back to the old normal of not wearing masks.
Two years, two months, and two weeks too late; but let’s just hope they learned the truth.
They never said the masks would keep you from catching or spreading covid, decrease hospitalization, lower symptoms, flatten curves, or reduce deaths.
So now that they have done nothing, its time to quietly forget them.
What will they do with the extra supply in storage?
Germany has an extra billion dollars in masks they are “thermally recycling”. That is a nice way to say “burning”.
And Beijing smiles.
Seeing how masks don’t work at all anywhere, odd they are keeping it on any location.
I still see plenty of people wearing masks in this area of suburban Detroit. As long as it’s not mandatory, I don’t really care, but I still think “dipwad” when I see someone wearing one. I’m sure there will be a large number of people in Korea that will cling to their masks for a long, long time.
Scott Adams: https://noqreport.com/2023/01/22/pro-vaxx-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-admits-profusely-the-anti-vaxxers-win/
“ I’m sure there will be a large number of people in Korea that will cling to their masks for a long, long time.”
People were wearing masks in Korea long before CoVID-19, so it will be no surprise to see that continue, perhaps with an uptick over previous numbers. It’s not a bad idea considering all the dust and pollution in the air here.
Koreans should ‘follow the science’ on mask wearing: Paper or ordinary surgical masks have limited use for coarse and fine pollution particles ranging from 0.3-10 microns in size. In addition to poor air pollution filtration, these masks almost always have ineffective or non-existent seals, as air can flow freely in and out of the sides of the mask.
Although I welcome the announcement, I was hoping that they would also abolish the mask mandate for public transport.
This means that if one was to ride on a Korean airliner, that person would still have to wear a mask inside the cabin.
It seems the government made a compromise with the so called “experts” so that they would come on board the partial abolishment of the mask mandate and not turn around and contradict the government’s announcement.
I flew 9 times last year and it turns out that if you wear your mask under your nose but over your mouth, the flight attendants say nothing…
…because this has nothing to do with covid or health…
…or they would be using a $4000 tension gauge developed by a government contractor to measure the quality of the seal between mask and face.
If you wear your mask on your chin and not covering your mouth, the flight attnedants give up after 3 reminders. You can even make eye contact and smile as they pass by. They say nothing…
…because… again… this has nothing to do with covid or health.
The entire charade is stupid.
But you know what is more stupid?
All of you for complying with this stupidity and bringing it on me.
The only thing stupider is those who buy into it all and think it actually means anything.
This entire covid nonsense has been worth it… as I have learned:
– government can be more crappy than i realized
– companies are more evil than i thought possible
– media lies more than anyone would think
– experts are only experts at playing the politics of supporting the narrative
– perhaps a little over half of people are too stupid to live… take your Safe & Effective booster… please.
When I write my dystopian novel, 1984 will be forgotten.
Was that an Asian airliner, CH?
Because a lot of US flight attendants kept it up until the mandate officially stopped. For example…about a week before the mandate ended they refused to relieve a pilot who had to use the restroom (pilots are not permitted to be in the cockpit alone, so a flight attendant has to be there when they use the restroom). Because they don’t wear masks in the cockpit (FAA won’t allow it, in case they need to use the oxygen having the mask on is a potential safety hazard). About 9 out of 10 flight attendants were anti-mandate, but those 1/10 Karens were like brownshirts about it.
Middle east, central asia, europe, usa…
Masks were required on every airline except American domestic.
Some people had masks, some didnt.
Sat next to what looked to be a worn out dyke with a former meth addiction on an American domestic flight.
I was wearing a mask out of courtesy when she sat down with no mask.
“I guess I don’t need a mask.”
“Fùck masks.”
I got along with her just fine.