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theResident
What's that @Bronco? Wearing a mask on public transport out of courtesy to others?
virusrex
Neither is testing everyone irrespectively of their vaccination or infection status, it has been the recommendation from a long time ago.
The reccomendation of the WHO is to use masks, your 2 and a half year old link comes from a time where the evidence of benefit of the use of masks for asymptomatic people was just being reported, which still makes your point irrelevant (and the recommendation before that was not only from the WHO, but also from all other international public health authorities).
virusrex
What "latest" are you talking about? not testing vaccinated people have had no real scientific basis since the variants appeared, so is excepting from tests people with previous infection. Neither guarantees a person will not be infected (only reduce this risk). Qatar is choosing to focus on infection instead of reduction of risk.
virusrex
As it misrepresent the measure as if it was something that have changed it is still wrong.
As you have repeatedly failed to provide evidence that all those authorities actually recommended masks use for asymptomatic people this is still validly considered false and a baseless appeal to authority.
That has no relevance, your repeatedly deleted comments trying to misrepresent the recommendation of the WHO as contrary to the available evidence requires that evidence to be presented, if you can't provide it then your comment is still invalid and misleading. There was no scientific evidence at the beginning of the pandemic that would have made the recommendation invalid, and when that evidence appeared the CDC, EMA, WHO, etc changed the recommendations accordingly.
Eastman
wondering who really wants to go there?
virusrex
There is a huge difference between vaccination not being a guarantee of a person becoming free of risk of infection and it having "absolutely no bearing" on it. Scientific evidence have proved vaccination do lower the risk of getting the infection, that would make your comment mistaken.
GBR48
quote: if fans do not develop symptoms of COVID-19.
It's largely asymptomatic.
wtfjapan
wondering who really wants to go there?
ah people who want to go the World Cup
RKL
Vaccines take about two weeks to reduce infection rates.
Sanjinosebleed
This is fair as vaccination status has absolutely no bearing on contagion! While I'd like to see no checking at all non discriminatory checking of all I s the fairest solution
painkiller
Fans going to the World Cup in Qatar must show a negative COVID-19 test when they arrive as part of the host nation’s rules to combat COVID-19, organizers said Thursday.
No vaccination requirement.
This is false. No scientific evidence proved this.
Masks must be worn on public transport, including the subway system that many fans will use to get to the eight stadiums in and around Doha.
You don't need to be a medical expert to come up with this.
master
over 6000 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010.
God forbid any of them run a temperature...
Raw Beer
Their effect on infection and transmission is minimal, and short-lived.
So, although I disagree with their having a COVID-19 testing requirement, it makes perfect sense to make it independent the individual’s vaccination status.
My policy is that I avoid any place that has a vaccination or test requirement.
virusrex
Studies present evidence of this effect being significative, which is why they are still promoted as such by scientific and medical authorities, just saying they are all wrong is not a meaningful argument.
virusrex
It is terribly easy to bring scientific evidence that prove this,
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336617-vaccinations-and-past-infections-reduce-risk-of-spreading-covid-19/
https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2022-03-11-cdc-pfizer-vaccine-reduces-omicron-infection-risk-31-59-children-age-5-15
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2119451
Your problem is assuming that if you ignore something it means it does not exist, in reality it just means you ignore that, even when it is extremely easy to find out.
Your repeated appeals for you not being a medical professional to justify being wrong are invalid excuses as well, anybody with an interest can confirm vaccines reduce rates of infection significantly in seconds.
Sanjinosebleed
Nah
painkiller
More than 97% of the population in Qatar has had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the data states.
Then basically everyone should be protected so how come . . .
theResidentToday 08:00 am JST
Wearing a mask out of courtesy would not fall under the purview of following the latest scientific guidance.
Then again, credit them for not following the WHO's ever changing agency-advice about masks.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html
painkiller
Wearing a mask out of courtesy would not fall under the purview of following the latest scientific guidance.
And so you understand the original statement it valid.
Comes from CNN.
In contrast to international public health authorities in Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea etc.
And you do not have any source showing that wearing of masks was found to not limit the spread of Covid infections at that time, so that means the WHO now agrees with all those other global health authorities at the beginning of the crisis.