Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Almost everyone here is wearing masks - you rarely see someone in a store without one, everyone here is washing hands. When entering stores you are supposed to wear gloves or disinfect your hands. Every store has to provide disinfectant on the entrance. I always wear mask at store, disinfect my hands immediately when getting back to the car with alcohol and wash my hands with soap when I get home.

Yet despite all this - I just spent the last 4 days on the toilet with a stomach flu, my friend has a cold and stuffy nose and his wife had a very short cold (and they are even more careful then we are)

A lady in my village has a positive covid result but her kids and husband are negative. Someone will infect me walking past me in a store with no mask but people living in the same household even sleeping with each other don't get infected from each other? For all we know covid is exactly as prevalent in poland as it is in the US and we're just testing far less.

I think the masks aren't making all that much difference to be honest. People are biting their nails then entering pin codes on the card readers when shopping, touching products etc. You then enter your pin, grab your car keys, touch your steering wheel, etc... I think mandatory hand washing and disinfecting would probably do more then those masks. Hard to protest hand washing too...