Want to make your own face mask? Here's how you can do it. • And if you'd like to better understand the debate about masks, the best place to start, writes liammannix, is on the third floor of a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, seven months ago:
One of the best places to start if you want to understand the debate about whether we should be wearing masks in public is on the third floor of a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, seven months ago.
Two of the most-senior infection-control experts advising the federal government belong to the latter group. That’s why social distancing and hand washing are health authorities’ front-line weapons, rather than masks. This diagram, from a paper by Professor Morawska, shows how a virus can spread through a poorly-ventilated room.Yet the 1.5 metre rule has become “dogma” and held up the push for masks, said Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Air Quality at the Queensland University of Technology Professor Lidia Morawska.
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