the vaccine used in UK "may" not be effective against the new SA mutation
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/statu...79119692484608
I suspect if I turn on the UK TV news there will be roving journalist showing the desperately empty shopping streets on one channel and in a different report people ambling around without masks. UK social and governmental enforcement of civil liberty encroaching laws is not perhaps so strong. If you walk down the street without a mask in HK how many meters until someone tells you?
In HK (as a gweiloh) if you wander around outside without a mask nobody say's anything (including the police). Now there ARE dedicated patrols of police that go out with the intent to fine some people - but they are VERY rare.
I have walked past police many times maskless (i'd say twice to three times a week in the past 3 months) and none of them have taken even a passing interest in my mask status, they don't even glance and pause for thought.
Re the general public, some give you a slightly wider berth, maybe 25% (woo hoo that's a major win) some do a panicked evasive move (maybe 1%), most don't react at all - Nobody says a word.
if you go into a shop or public transport etc, it's a different matter.
In a restaurant however, again nobody say's anything as you'll be sitting and taking it off in all of 10 seconds