Correct as a statement of fact. What has France and their piss poor response to Covid (reliance on the EU) got to do with the point you initially raised, are their masks operation theatre standard?
Are you trying to conflate wearing a highly regulated, medical-grade mask in a sterile operating theatre environment with wearing any old bit of cloth over our mouths in the forlorn hope it makes any real difference as we go about our daily lives?
Conflicting evidence and a complete reversal of previous health advice from WHO (amongst others) plus a lifetime of governments making it up as they go along.
Depends if you trust or believe the people assessing the RISK, one month they say wearing masks makes no difference next month we MUST wear a mask, one month only a certain grade of mask stops transmission the next we should all wear any old bit of cloth over our mouths ... saying that, when...
In years to come, I wouldn't be surprised if mask-wearing during the pandemic is found to (after assessing all available data) at best have a very marginal impact on transmission or more likely has been the biggest supposed health benefit con of our lifetimes. Many people/companies/government...
Hopefully a short press release saying .. 'although we had good intentions it clearly isn't possible to enforce covid checks for tens of thousands of people as we have no control over crowd arrival times and limited surge capacity re staffing so everything back to normal for the Everton match'...