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Sunday May 03, 2009 Several people on my flight to Paris today were wearing those surgical mask thingies, presumably as a precaution against swine flu.
I find this sort of thing spectacularly irritating. The masks don't really do much. At best, they might provide some sort of psychological comfort to the wearer. They give me the heebie jeebies when I see people wearing them. I find it toe-curlingly pretentious.
Two of the people wearing them today were obese, with cigarette packs in their shirt pockets. It strikes me that they have more to worry about in terms of protecting their general good health. They also had to take the masks off when burbling into their mobile phones, rendering the entire exercise utterly pointless.
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I heard somebody in a white coat on tv or radio (so they must be right!) saying they don't help much in preventing contagion but they may help a bit in preventing transmission if the wearer is infected with flu. Basically the best response is to stay away from these folk, as either they are either prententious or they have the plague!!!
Posted by Riz Din on May 11, 2009 at 01:45 AM GST #