We didn’t know that until later in the pandemic. Do you seriously think when we didn’t know we should just have ignored the risk anyway?
Mask wearing in work places was never made mandatory, just recommended. So I bet you were popular. They were elsewhere though. In England, face masks were first made legally mandatory on public transport on June 15, 2020, and in shops and most indoor public spaces starting July 24, 2020. After mandates were initially lifted in July 2021, they briefly returned between November 30, 2021, and January 27, 2022, to combat the Omicron variant before ending permanently for the general public. Did you comply in public places?
Have you stopped to consider that, at least partly, that was because we socially distanced and wore masks. Alongside discovering the virus wasn’t as deadly as was initially feared, for most people. Maybe if there were masks, people socially distanced and we had the NHS, we would have survived the plague better!
Things were tried. Things worked. Some didn’t. We learned on the hoof. Not during lengthy field trials.
The NHS, where my wife works, were magnificent during Covid. Putting themselves at risk and under great strain in the service of everyone. Including you.
We knew very early on that this was mainly affecting old people. So very early on we could have had children back in school and out playing. 3 weeks to flatten the curve. Lol
Off course I NEVER wore a mask in public places. What a very silly question. In public it was recommended and never a law. Many people had medical conditions so they couldn't wear them anyway. You never had to say you were exempt, as that would be an admission of a private medical condition. You could just say I choose not to wear one. As far as I know, every covid punishment challenged has been overturned as it was unlawful.
Masks didn't work they only made the wearer sick. Breathing in their own germs and carbon dioxide. Fiddling around with them all the time. The masks easily let through "virus particles " the equivalent of throwing a bucket of water through a chain link fence.
200 people at my work. No masks at the so called height of it. Social distancing paid lip service. No one got ill. I've already told you this but you bang on about social distancing, masks and saving lives.
Answer me this please. What is the point of the 2 meter rule for an airborne disease. Surely by that logic none of us would have been able to occupy the space someone else had recently been; but we did all the time breathing the same air.
The government put out on a gov. link March 2020 that "covid 19: was a member of the coronavirus illnesses. That it was similar to the flu and not deadly to most. So we knew very early.
The great Dr Vernon Coleman used to keep that link on his website, it might still be there.
The NHS were overwhelmed in some places probably because healthy staff were being sent home with false positives from the pcr test.
Every winter the NHS is overwhelmed from flu and respiratory issues. This time they had far fewer staff because of the testing. The same happened at my work.
The NHS didn't provide me with any service, (of which I pay for through my taxes and your wife gets paid to do a job) I never used them through the debacle.
Edit.
We didn't need to learn on the hoof. This was shown and admitted to be a coronavirus, not a deadly disease to healthy people. Certainly not children and people probably under 50 at least.
We already knew about sars cov 1. That's how we got to sar cov 2. Are you following me? So why unprecedented lockdown of everyone for a virus which they already knew about.