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If you’re well
March: probably no. July: a scarf, or a $200 fine. Same virus. Same verb.
If you're well, and are not caring for a person with COVID-19, the answer is probably no.
ABC Health, 25 March 2020: community spreading. Do you need a mask? “If you’re well… the answer is probably no.” Headline: not recommended for healthy individuals.
23 July 2020, same city: a face covering in public or a $200 fine. Surgical, cloth, or a scarf. Daniel Andrews: deeply grateful to Victorians wearing masks and “making sacrifices” to stop the spread.
This card files that U-turn. It does not file “masks never worked.”
What did have a receipt:
- Four months. Same virus. Official Australia went from “probably no” to a scarf as a legal instrument.
- Healthdirect still says cloth gives “the least protection” from droplets and aerosols — “but they can still help stop the spread.” Least, and stop: two verbs on one page.
- A fitted respirator and a tea towel are not the same meter. The slogan treated them as one covering.
Grammar: well / not well, March. Logic: a scarf is not a P2. Rhetoric: stop the spread, or $200.