Originally Posted by
Screwball
Zero medical background, but I work up on the Canadian border with CBP. We’ve been estimating the border reopening in the April 2021 timeframe... with the vaccine effectiveness being the major factor.
Personally, I feel it all is too reactive of responses. We didn’t have mandatory mask wearing with travelers until May 2020 timeframe... which I feel was way too late to worry about exposure.
All of CBP in ME have recently made it mandatory to wear a mask at all times at work (it sucks), which was timed with the Governor making it a requirement in all businesses/public areas. Again, I feel it was too little, too late... and most of us are annoyed with it since it clearly isn’t in response to officer safety...
Whether or not masks are the way, the entire response puts too much emphasis on it. People put on a mask, and they now think they are safe. Not washing hands, you are just as risk... if not more because you are now bringing your hands up to your face. At least without masks, we tended to keep our six feet distance when possible.
But working for a plumbing company prior to my current job, I can say even N-95 masks aren’t protecting as people make them out to. Concrete dust, cast iron dust, drywall dust... all of which ended up inside the mask and was blown out of my nose when I showered after work.
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