"any country on Earth" you say, when around 60% of people in Tokyo are masked on crowded trains, based on very recent observations.

Maybe suicide in any white country. Many white people do seem averse to protecting their own health even when the sky is full of smoke. Peculiar behavior.

How about the government clearly and repeatedly telling people to wear respirators? With the President and surgeon general never being seen in public without one?

A lot of people Trust Official Advice. When the advice is silent, naturally they do nothing.

Have to disagree with "from day 1". It really did seem neutralizing at first. This is why the Provincetown breakthroughs from Delta strain in summer 2021 were alarming news.

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No idea, sorry, it was just a sign I saw years ago, exploring Jamaica Plain.

I'm also not sure of the German context -- "you have to wear FFP2 on the train, but it's okay to go to restaurants" has obvious infection control problems; it'll make the train a safer place to be (good!) but won't keep the brunchers from infection.

"Encouraging respirator use" has almost never been tried at a massive level. Closest was Germany and Austria mandating FFP2s for a few months. Not sure about Korean messaging but surgical use is still high.

Yes, and omicron was in 2022. You don't know what the 2022 mask use was.
Also, your paper say nothing about what kind of masks were used. An image search finds lots of photos where many Koreans are in surgical masks.

And frankly, unadjusted KF94s aren't that good -- fit is poor.

We'll never know as long as Western public health refuses to advocate and educate about respirator usage.

So much of this. Do the vaccines slow transmission at a population level? Yes. Does it prevent you from acquiring Covid (particularly when most ppl are undervaccinated)? No.
It's more misinformation to tell them to 'vax & relax' then to say vaccine is limited in its effectiveness.

No One Loves Me, Not Even Myself is a weird concept for a line of food

I found a place in Japan selling "Sloppy Joe's" though the menu picture is of thick slices of bread and a thin layer of sauced meat.

Yeah, surprisingly rare. I did find a vegan cafe in Boston selling "Sloppy Jane's".

Also a lot of things are easier to clean if you do them right away.

Bowl of milk and cereal: if you rinse it right away, all you really need is water.

If you let the milk residue dry out, ewww.

Simple hot water often melts grease off of metal or ceramic, leaving them squeaky clean.

respiradores: N95, KF94, FFP2, FFP3

Debería quedarte bien sin fugas.

Or "makes you less likely to die"?

How is "uptake is horrendous" extremely dismissive of the usefulness of vaccines?

There's a world beyond the papers. I remember the lockdowns in AU and China working.

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Define "significantly reduce".
There is some measurable reduction, yeah.

But at current effectiveness and R0, even if literally everyone got vaccinated, we wouldn't achieve herd immunity and elimination.

Or it's "Hobbes said something mind-bogglingly wrong" vibes.

"The fact that people are arguing with me proves that I'm right" is a bad argument.

Since you transcribed what she said, you should have written down these words:

"vaccines reduce severity... uptake is horrendous. People aren't getting their yearly vaccine update."

How can you possible characterize that as anti-vax?

No, the most mysterious ones are those wearing a surgical on their chin... in trains and other crowded indoor places.

The "pandora used" panel needs a "would" or something.

And the video, explicitly, does not argue against the vaccine. It's explicitly pro vaccine. It's against vaccine only.

I note you haven't answered most of my questions.

But people are used to vaccines where "if you get this, you basically don't get the disease, especially if we all get the shot".

Covid is not one of them. Might have been in Jan 2021, but not now. Yet many people act as if it is. It's not antivax to point out the facts.

Most familiar non-flu vaccines are extinction-level but just haven't been deployed enough. We had eliminated MMR from the Americas. Polio was down to two countries.

Can't extinct rabies easily, animal reservoirs, though I think some populations have been cleaned via oral vaccine in bait.

Did you watch the entire video? Where she says it reduces severity? Where she says that people not getting annual shots is a problem?

Here's another true fact: even if everyone got an annual shot, we wouldn't reach herd immunity and eliminate transmission. Not with VE under 50% and R0 of 8+

If you want to avoid infection with any reliability, vaccine alone is inadequate.

How we talk about people also matters. Calling her antivax is just false.