TOBY SHAPSHAK: Dear runners, a ‘buff’ isn’t a face mask, it’s a disguise for buffoonery
Running masks, or buffs, are the least effective facemask, says a recent study
25 November 2020 - 07:00
As a mental health excursion on a Saturday morning during lockdown, my wife and I would get a cappuccino and a croissant, and take our three-year-old son for a walk.
We have old people in our families – my mother is 92 – and our priority has been to make sure we don’t inadvertedly give it to them. This was the middle of August. There was none of the strange certainty that would emerge by October, and now November, about this strange “novel coronavirus pandemic”...
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