Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
Welsh government strategy and evidence page: https://gov.wales/strategy-evidence-coronavirus

The eventual themes of the pandemic rules have been:

- reduce contact number and contact duration
- outdoor is safer than indoor*
- virus spreads quicker where there is projection which is why singing/shouting is bad and masks are good**
- greater compliance when there is a perception we're all in it together

*There was a really slow recognition that indoor can be made safer with good ventilation. It continues to be too slow.
** For whatever reason the initial advice was anti-masks. Was that bad science or wanting to avoid the cost?

It's perceived likely that we'll have a third wave.

Why no aggressive re-opening with vaccine roll-out?
Take the point about ventilation, but, as someone who didn't catch Covid through the winter, I definitely think having windows open tp provide ventilation through the colder months did me more harm than good.