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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by johnchristopher on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:19AM (#27151656)
In Belgium, basically the same thing happened but at the same time they also said covid was just a flu.

So, a lot of trust lost.

Now I suspect them to do the same with the astrazeneca stock they have to liquidate.

Headlines this week said the indian variant is going to be the major one in Belgium.

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by CorrectHorseBat on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:02AM (#27151896)
IIRC that was not exactly how it happened. They said masks are not necessary if you only meet outside and keep your 1.5m distance. Leave the FFP masks for those who really need it. source from February 2020: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20200225_04864971
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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by sharken on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:36AM (#27151754)
In Denmark there were news stories about the real name of the AZ vaccine, just about the same time the bloodclot issue appeared.

I don't know anyone who uses the name Vaxzevria instead of the Astra Zeneca vaccine or just AZ.

The UK is about to open up fully in June but is now worried about the Indian variant (B.1.617).

Even though we in Denmark back in january was informed by health authorities that the English variant (B.1.1.7) was very worrying.

Truth is there will always be another variant, just look at this overview.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global

The trust in health authorities have been reduced greatly and have been replaced with mistrust to politicians motives, I'm sad to say.

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by johnchristopher on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:56AM (#27151860)
Reading our politician's stance their motto seem to be that they didn't want to cause a panic. I always thought democracy strongly needed transparency to be effective so now I am left with questions and a shift in how I see our governing institutions.
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