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Here in Germany people still freak out about it, you still need masks on public transport for example. You had to wear them during air travel as well, at least up until around a month ago when someone leaked a photo of government officials maskless in an airplane so this rule is no longer enforced. :-))

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With a mask mandate for public transport as the only mass-wide measure, which is not even followed nor enforced too much, I strongly disagree with your wording, that people freak out about it. (Not even arguing about the pro and cons of this measure, but the benefits of it are actually quite evident).

Also your claim that rules are not enforced because of a "leaked photo of a government official" lacks any reasoning and evidence.

Yeah I mean just imagine the horror if you allowed people to take a train without a mask. It would be like literally all the other countries in the EU. Isn't that horrific? I can't even imagine it. Thank God for the mask mandates, the benefits are evident!

Oh and the fact that airplane mask mandates were abandoned after over 2 years, just days after Scholz got his photo leaked? Total coincidence. Yup. Unsubstantiated. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ma...

The tone of your comment as well as the logic of your argument is so personal and unobjective, my interest in answering is very low.

Nobody was talking about horror. This is a very unobtrusive measure that is proven to be effective - not only against covid - that also protects vulnerable people that use public infrastructure. The benefit of masks is so evident, I don't even want to point to singular sources, so here you can see an overview: https://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=masks+covid .

And to your second point, the logic of drawing conclusions from correlations is simply conspiracy level, no more.

  Here in Germany people still freak out about it

Wrong. Wearing a mask is nothing compared to what you have in China.

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