Only if you have the virus PATD you cannot spread something you don't have and not if you social distance and have covid safe shops.
Given the droplets are too dense to do anything other than drop onto a flat surface it would be better if everyone wore gloves because its far less likely you will inhale touch your nose and mouth wearing gloves especially leather ones than wearing a mask that itches and scratches and cause acne break outs and rashes and increase the chances of breathing in Co2 etc etc.
Can't figure out why glove sales haven't gone through the roof to be honest.
I don't wear a mask for health reasons , you would be surprised how much damage wearing a mask can do for your long term health particularly if you keep one for long periods of time.
Masks should be individual choice taking your own health and your own circumstance into consideration.
Forcing someone to wear one and having a fine hanging on the end of not wearing one does not for a better more democratic society make.
In saying that its no surprise that on 3.5 per cent of those fined to date in Australia have paid them and the rest won't get prosecuted because prosecutions have ground to a stand still in the Magistrates Courts due to the Covid Response.
i have a case in court against a sociopathic thug going on or not as they case may be at present as the matter has been adjourned for 12 months.
Unheard cases in Melbourne are up 1000 fold in the past 8 months (LOL).
plenty of criminals that should be in jail or sacked from their jobs getting a free pass.
55.6 million cases reported to date probably more like 300 million IMO still only 4 per cent of the world population.
1.3 million reported dead with or from the virus most of those with rather than from probably more like 3 million in truth.
Pandemic yes , high transmission yes , take seriously yes , overreach by government in response yes.
the old saying if you want to waste a dollar give it to governments and bureaucrats to spend , if you want a poor response to a health issue give it to government to handle it.
mental health visitations , elective surgeries , suicides , build up of screens , business collapses , rent reduction , bankruptcies , domestic violence , divorce increased many fold I could go on.
Too many countries have over reacted to the virus , spread unnecessary fear and made poor decisions when it comes to quarantine protocol and not protected the vulnerable.
How about that idiot in New York that sent covid positive people into nursing homes FFS.
He not only should have sacked and replace by a pot plant ( living one ) but court marshalled and jailed to join some covid positive prisoners yet half the population in New York still suffering from Stockholm Syndrome still think he did a good job.
