Australia's per capita COVID-19 rate is among the highest in the world, so why are so few people masking up?
over the next few weeks, in a bid to limit the transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.So why aren't more Australians wearing them?Why are people returning to pre-COVID behaviours?
"[People are] going back to what is known to them, what they're used to doing, and, I suppose without any kind of reminders or restrictions around it, what else is nudging them to wear a product?" "That changes our mindsets about whether or not we need to take up and use a mask, or when we do we need to get a vaccine, and using the other public health strategies."
Professor Crabb has called for them to reconsider their decision, suggesting mandating masks in some settings could encourage more people to wear them outside of those areas, too. "I think they're having to look at this more holistically than just one kind of upsurge in cases, and around one public health practice," she said.
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