I keep repeating this to mask-skeptics (which in my country is nearly everyone): Asia had their Sars-scare early, and they've basically been wearing masks ever since. They're doing pretty OK, not just because some countries (e.g. China) can and will _really_ lock a city down. Masks, hygiene, sickness discipline... they work. But even now nearly nobody objects when a colleague is obviously ill and still bring their snotty nose to work, COVID-free or not. I wish people would regard this like we regard washing our hands. But no, somehow people seem to think we've always washed our hands, and we have never changed our ways, and we shan't right now either because of freedumb. Uggghhh.