MOSCOW — Moscow residents will be required to wear masks and gloves when using public transit and visiting public spaces starting Tuesday because of the coronavirus.
The announcement by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin comes after the decision to reopen industrial plants and construction sites in the capital on that same day.
“Allowing more people to work, we understand that it will increase passenger traffic on the transport, increase the number of people who come in contact with each other, and it somehow needs to be compensated for,” Sobyanin said Thursday in an interview on the state-run Rossia 24 TV channel.
He added that as many as 2.5% of Moscow’s 12.7 million population — some 300,000 people — may be infected with the coronavirus.
Moscow has so far registered almost 93,000 confirmed cases of the virus — more than half of the country’s total of 177,000 reported infections.
The crooks among them have been doing it for years.
From what I experienced, the Moscow subway system is, like NYC’s, broadly utilized, and is probably a significant transmission vector. Hopefully the models showing that even imperfect masks will help are correct.
I honestly don’t get the utility of gloves, though. Once a person touches anything the gloves are no longer sterile, and covid-19 doesn’t infect through the skin, so what’s the point?
Moscow Residents Will Be Required To Wear Masks, Gloves In Public
And, Donnie’s warm feelings for Vlad aside, his allies will happily cite this as an example of how social distancing and pandemic control measures are evidence of an emergent tyranny.
In states with blue governors.
“They wanna be just like Russia…”
Those who disagree publicly with this policy may find themselves falling out of windows.
Like masks, gloves you’re wearing can “remind” you not to touch your face.
If you change them frequently enough, they can also help curtail the spread of the virus.
They aren’t any sort of magic solution.