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Okay so it seems some people on this forum need educating.
First point - how do you define ‘put other peoples lives in danger’ - I assume you mean that people who don’t wear face coverings are putting other people’s lives in danger. Really? The virus has an overall survival rate of 99.96%, according to the CDC.
Second point - there clearly is a ‘right to not wear a face covering’. The covid red clearly state who is exempt from wearing the face masks. I’ll remind you:
(i)
because of any physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability (within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010(1)), or
(ii)
without severe distress; https://www.legislation....20/791/regulation/4/made
If a person claims to have a disability, the regs also state that the person is under no obligation to prove said disability.
If anything, due to this disability, reasonable adjustments may have to be made to ensure the person is not discriminated against.
A point for other posters who seem to think all the science concludes face masks work - please don’t dismiss the vast amount of science which concludes the opposite.
When is anyone going to stand up for the children in all of this? They are literally at zero risk from the virus yet they will be burdened profoundly for decades, mentally(mental health services have never been so busy) , educationally (months and months of school time missed), Physically (child obesity rates all time high due to lockdown) and financially, paying back all the billions the government has given out - people think this money grows on trees, that the government are wonderful for helping out financially. It is the younger generations who will be paying this all for a very long time.
Firstly the survival rate is not likley to be 99.96%. And I can provide evidence of this with very simple maths. Peru currently has 34,000 deaths so far. Assuming the whole 33m population was infected that gives a survival rate of 99.90% which is worse than your 99.96%. And we have to assume nobody else is going to die in Peru, which seems unlikely.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - Gives you an idea of how deadly the virus has been so far. 19 countries have already lost more than 1 person out of every 2000 to this virus, and we are probably only halfway through. you 99.96% would kill 3.12m people (worldwide) and we are over a third of the way there already, with under reporting. Do you really believe a third of the world is already infected? If we follow Peru's model it could be as high as 7.8m.
Exemptions to a law are not the same as the "right to not wear a face covering". They are reasons that the government decided they would allow people not to wear a face covering, that is all. The people protesting are not the same people that have an exemption, let's not pretend they are.
Can you link to the "vast amount of science" papers that say masks are not effective? I will link a respected sources below below that say they are.
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021 - From the British Medical Journal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494435/ - is an interesting read debunking those that say masks are not effective
https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/set-c/set-c-facemasks.pdf - is waiting on peer review, but is a good review point for the scientific consensus
Children are not "zero risk" they are extremely low risk. We don't yet know the long term implications of being infected. The damage it could do to society to let the virus run havoc is far more than the inconvenience of one year of disruption. If you are so concerned about the children then I question your views on masks. South Korea put masks in place much earlier on (along with most of S.E Asia) as they had previous experience of a SARS epidemic. They haven't had to resort to huge lockdowns because they have the virus under control. Masks save lives, it is as simple as that.