South Korea to end outdoor mask mandate

Slowly slowly science and common sense prevailing around the world.

High vaccination rate and mandatory mask did not prevent anything. Korea had up to 400000 infections a day . The

Hoping Japan moves on as well. Last couple of weeks, I've stopped wearing masks in shopping centers, conbinis, etc. It was a bit nerve racking at first, but no one seems to have a problem with it. And I'm usually by myself, not in a group talking out loud. For the record, I'm trippled vaxxed and I take other precautionary measures such as temp checks.

They had an outdoor mask mandate? Why?

Rain ManToday  03:47 pm JST

Good, the likelihood of becoming infected while outdoors is incredibly low and there’s no need for a mask.

While that may be true, it only holds if one is living in the outdoors away from all civilization. You can be "outside" without a mask, but you will encounter other people, you may want to enter a store, bus or train. So you're going to have to carry a mask with you regardless.

intelligent approach perhaps the ending of mask mandate ?

The South Koreans would rather wear masks than vaccinate .

Japan didn't need a mask mandate but why bother comparing Japan to South Korea anyway.

Shanghai still locked down

Cumulative infected and death higher in SK than in Japan

just saying

I stopped wearing a mask anywhere many weeks ago, except my job because they demand it, unfortunately.

It's horrifically ridiculous.

Basic math with the above stats indicate that 7,140,000 South Koreans have chosen to remain unvaccinated.

My kid would’ve failed basic math and quite possibly basic English if they gave that answer to exam questions with the details from the article.