Covid 19 | Putting masks and social distancing

Covid 19 | Putting masks and social distancing

While visiting in China you can see regularly people wearing protective masks on public areas, and also when guiding and giving lectures to Chinese groups many tourists wear protective masks.  Let’s discuss about putting protective masks and keeping social distancing. Is there a mask culture in china?

Miss Wu

No, there is not any mask culture we wear masks because we need to.

This method was successful around the world dealing with pandemics like with the Spanish flu and with the SARS.

 We normally appreciate fresh air, but now those are different times we were asked to avoid spreading the virus. When you wear a mask, you reduce the amount of potential virus spread from your body.

As of now we buy masks at pharmacies. I can use my citizen social assurance card for payment.

 In pharmacies there is a limitation of the number of masks that you can purchase.

As Einstein said: “Imagination is better than Knowledge” :We started to create homemade masks and bring it to the hospital staff.   

We can go out via public transportation; we just need to show our health QR code. We still avoid large gathering and this is the main limitations, we cannot go to pubs and movies like we used to.

In restaurants and coffee shops we sit alone or with our family.

Neta

In Israel, there is a recent demand for putting masks on. It seems so funny and strange to many people.

It's hard to find the best type (N-95) and everyone started to make homemade masks.

Some people see it as a new fashion, I guess that now we are going to see solutions and development in the area of personal protection.

for its about dynamic regulation that keep changing rapidly through the media:

Do not gather, do not join social activities, better to meet online using the social media platforms

And Keep a distance of 2 meters from each other.

We can go out for a short walk up to 100 meters from our home and to avoid gatherings as much as possible. Organized gatherings of more than 2 people are forbidden, except for people who lives in the same household.

In China Do you keep social distancing?

 Miss Wu

 There is no restriction about it, each person decides on their own how close he can get to other person.

Community management is checking body temperature without keeping any social distancing.

The May holiday was a great chance to re-open sites and focusing on domestic tourism and get ready to be back to new normal routine. The main advantage of the Chinese people was that they kept on putting masks and checking on regular basic each person health status.

There is a nice gimmick inside many national parks where you get a wide 1-meter hat to remind you to take distance from others.

Showing your personal QR code will let everyone easily know if you need quarantine (yellow or red color) or healthy by having a green color next to your QR code.

I want to mention as of April 2020 : Things are getting much better in China as Restaurant, shops are open again.

There are restrictions like sitting alone in a table inside a restaurant. Gathering and Weddings in public are still now allowed.  If a friend will invite her for a wedding it means this person is not a good friend as she risks her like and she will probably not come.

Same for sport events. If my favorite soccer player for example “Messi” will come to play in my city when the epidemic is still here I would love to go, but I will not risk my life.

Final words

From what we understand China believes masks are the most effective way of protecting our self and others while in Israel we have started keep social distancing and just lately there is an emphasis on wearing masks.

The epidemic is here in the air and this is a fact. We need to do anything we can to cut the disease infection chain. Wearing masks method worked very well in China.

 I guess that in the future we are going to see development of innovative clothing with new ways of protecting others, maybe like we see in science fiction movies.