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The deliberate ambiguity over policing face masks

25 July 2020

10:04 PM

25 July 2020

10:04 PM

Today is the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic in England when you must wear a mask if you go shopping.

Up to now ministers and health and scientific advisors have played fast and loose with facial coverings. Judgements on their merit and usefulness have waxed and waned from the ‘yeah, but no, but yeah’ of some, to the complex virology of ‘better on than off’ of others. It

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