The mask requirement is having an effect: there has been no flu wave this Corona winter so far.
In certain places, it makes sense to wear masks even after the pandemic.
Does the mask requirement remain?
So far, 2,237,790 people in Germany have contracted the
coronavirus
and 58,956 people have died in connection with
Covid-19
.
(Status: 03.02.2021)
In
Germany
several are now
vaccines
approved, but by supply shortages and production difficulties, the vaccination campaign delayed *.
An end to the pandemic is not yet in sight.
Will
masks
be
required
in some areas
even after the
corona pandemic
?
According to
experts
, it will be a long time before we
get rid of
the
mask requirement
.
Wherever the safety distance of 1.5 meters cannot be maintained,
mouth and nose protection is
the best and easiest way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus * and protect others.
How long the
corona pandemic
will
last
is not yet known exactly.
It is clear that the
mask requirement
will remain until the pandemic is contained.
But what about a mask requirement after the
pandemic
?
The positive effect of the mask requirement: wearing everyday masks has an effect
Even if many continue to disagree about the extent to which
cloth masks
really protect and whether the new medical mask requirement * makes sense, one fact cannot be denied: One
So far, there has been no flu wave this Corona winter.
In addition, pharmacists report that this
winter of 2020/2021 they sold
fewer medicines for
cold symptoms
such as runny nose, cough, sore throat and body aches - the demand for them has fallen.
The number of gastrointestinal diseases is also falling.
"The number of cases of many other
infectious diseases fell
during the
Covid 19 pandemic
compared to previous years," says Sonia Boender from the Surveillance Department at the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of
the
German Press Agency
.
The absence of a
flu epidemic
is not only observed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as many other European countries also report that they have up to 95 percent fewer influenza cases than in previous years.
Will the mask requirement remain after the pandemic?
Bacteria and
flu viruses
have spread less intensely in 2020 than in previous years.
This is of course not only due to the
mask requirement
, but also to the other aspects of the
AHA rules
: keep
your
distance,
observe
hygiene
and
wear
a
mask
in everyday life
.
How easy it can sometimes be: compliance with simple
hygiene measures
actually seems to work.
The question that is now in the room: What happens to the
mask requirement
after the end of the
corona pandemic
?
The majority of the population is happy that they will probably no
longer have to wear
an
everyday mask
when shopping, at work, at school, in a restaurant or even on the street
.
But there are areas in which
wearing a mask
makes sense even after the pandemic.
Where could there be a mask requirement in the future?
How often have you sat
close together
in the
doctor's
waiting room
with a bunch of other sick people and thought: “I hope I won't get infected with someone else”?
Thought a
full-face protection
to wear and not to put his hands all the time into his own face before the
washed hands
, has probably more likely to have only a few people.
Before the
corona pandemic
, it was, if at all, only the
doctors
themselves who
wore
mouth protection
.
However, it could definitely make sense
to continue wearing
an
everyday mask in the
future,
for example as a patient in the
waiting room
, in the treatment
room
, in the
hospital
or when visiting a
nursing home
, in order to protect other people from their own
viruses
and
bacteria
.
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