Wearing your mask outdoors and putting it in your pocket when entering a bar is like wearing your helmet while walking and taking it off when riding a motorcycle. However, this paradox is common in countries like Spain, with regulations that impose masks outdoors, but make exceptions inside restaurants and offices. More and more frontline experts are questioning these contradictory measures, such as the epidemiologist Marc Lipsich, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Harvard University (USA). “I am generally very radical in defending rules with a clear benefit, but putting on a mask outdoors has significant costs and there is really no evidence of its benefits,” Lipsitch warned. this Monday.
