Glove-and-mask hysteria: stupidity or greed?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Starting today, the mayor's office has demanded that Muscovites appear in public places wearing masks and gloves. As for the masks, you can still understand, but gloves are not just useless - they are harmful. [How many days does the virus remain viable on gloves? - Approx. ss69100.] This is what the WHO says, the doctors are talking about it.

Interestingly, Sobyanin himself does not wear gloves, today he appeared in front of journalists without them.

At the same time, the Moscow Metro has already begun to sell masks and gloves. Masks are now sold for 30 rubles, gloves - for 20 rubles.

The problem is not even the price, but the fact that it is an obligation. If you have already passed an idiotic law, then masks should be distributed free of charge to everyone who needs them for daily movement around the city.

Rospotrebnadzor recommends changing masks every two hours. Recently "Komsomolskaya Pravda" calculated that if you follow these recommendations, a person will spend more than 5 thousand rubles a month on masks. Accordingly, a family of two - more than 10 thousand (in the case of masks from the metro ticket offices, a little less, because "KP" calculated monthly expenses based on the price of one mask at 35 rubles). These are the same people, most of whom, instead of state support on "non-working days", received shish and butter.

But you don’t want to give out masks, you want to sell them. What will people do? Nobody wants to spend an additional 5-10 thousand per month on your whim. Many do not have them at all. Therefore, people will use masks incorrectly - for example, wear them all day without changing, or wash disposable masks - and become infected. All efforts to contain the coronavirus epidemic will fizzle out. This means that your new restrictions will do more harm than good.

The desire to make money on Muscovites - and Russians in general, because the "mask regime" was introduced in many regions - will lead to tragedy.

As for the mandatory wearing of gloves, this is just nonsense (and harm).

⠀ [Regarding gloves, below is an excerpt from the official French government protocol on the conduct of citizens in public during a pandemic

We translate

Avoid wearing gloves: they give a false impression of protection. Gloves themselves become transmitters of viruses, and the risk of touching the face is the same as without them. Therefore, the risk of infection with gloves is not lower, but most likely even higher. - Approx. ss69100.]

A lot of nonsense awaits us in the near future, and we should not blindly accept all of them. The requirement to wear gloves is nonsense. Trying to oblige Russians to buy masks is stupidity. Let's see what will happen next. A smart official will correct the mistake and cancel the stupid demand. A stupid official will try to force people to comply with a harmful and dangerous law.

Fun fact, by the way!

In February 2020, the Moscow Metro purchased 549 thousand masks at a price of 1.64 rubles per piece and 1.4 million pairs of nitrile gloves at a price of 4.47 rubles per pair. Today masks and gloves in the metro are sold for 30 and 20 rubles. If these are the same masks and gloves, the trade markup is 1800% and 450%, respectively.