From Saturday, the wearing of a mask in enclosed spaces will be compulsory, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told a regular government news briefing on Thursday. Gulyás also said booster jabs are now compulsory for health-care staff. Plans are also afoot for the same in state administration, he added.
Mask-wearing will be compulsory in shops, malls, museums, theatres, cinemas and in areas open to the public in government offices. Using masks on public transport will continue to be compulsory, he said. Events with more than 500 people attending can still be attended with an immunity certificate, he said. Also, mask-wearing will be mandatory wherever more than five people are regularly present in a shop. In schools, it will be up to head teachers to decide whether it is compulsory to wear a mask, he added.
Mask-wearing will be compulsory in shops, malls, museums, theatres, cinemas and in areas open to the public in government offices. Using masks on public transport will continue to be compulsory, he said. Events with more than 500 people attending can still be attended with an immunity certificate, he said. Also, mask-wearing will be mandatory wherever more than five people are regularly present in a shop. In schools, it will be up to head teachers to decide whether it is compulsory to wear a mask, he added.
Offices and sports facilities will be continue to be mask-free.
Gulyás said modelling indicated that the fourth wave would peak in late November or early December, though, he added, making such predictions was risky.
Expert were agreed, he said, that vaccination was the only truly effective protection against Covid, especially the delta variant, and he cited the examples of Israel and the United States where booster shots had proved effective. The government, he added, recommended a booster jab for everyone from the fourth month on.
People who refused to be vaccinated put the health and lives of others at risk,
he said, adding that the government had been forced to make mask-wearing compulsory for this reason. From Nov. 22 to 28, the government is rolling out a vaccination campaign with an increased number of designated vaccination points in hospitals, with no requirement for registration.
Meanwhile, Gulyás said that while the incumbent Fidesz government holds power, capped utility bills would be here to stay. Gulyás said it was welcome that the price of fuel at the pump had been capped throughout Hungary thanks to government intervention, and that all fuel stations had complied. The tax authority will be checking fuel quality from Wednesday, he added.
Small businesses will be given the opportunity to join a universal energy provider so as to benefit from lower bills, he said. Lower overheads and fuel prices will help to keep inflation in check, Gulyas added.
Commenting on the reports concerning alleged plans to sell Budapest’s City Hall, he insisted that the administration of Gergely Karácsony
was in a state of “chaos”
and, given the mayor had publicly rebuked a subordinate, the question of his credibility was hanging in the balance. Also, there was the question of whether he had been in possession of the relevant information, he added.
Whereas Karácsony had promised to create a park in the courtyard of City Hall and renovate the building, it transpired that the courtyard would continue to serve as a car park, while the building was in a worse condition than ever, Gulyás said.
Whereas Karácsony had promised to create a park in the courtyard of City Hall and renovate the building, it transpired that the courtyard would continue to serve as a car park, while the building was in a worse condition than ever, Gulyás said.
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Mask do nothing but show that your a compliant sheep. If you can smell a womans perfume or a mans body odour whilst wearing a face mask you are not protected from catching a virus.
Check your Biology! You are incorrect! Smell molecules are much much smaller that a virus particle. In addition the mask is catching YOUR spit so YOU do not infect others in case you are asymptomatic. Don’t make ignorant statements.
Here is some science about Facemask.
https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/?fbclid=IwAR2i08601AW4gilzk01gmyiADu1rYlGXdAWkxrWUGQ-J8sA2-YdEmpMYaCE
Or here an excellent video for those who prefer their info in video format:
https://thehighwire.com/videos/mask-whistleblowers-tell-all/
https://fee.org/articles/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19/
“In conclusion, both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
“Face masks should not be worn by healthy individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are effective in preventing people from becoming ill.”https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694
Does use of surgical face masks reduce the incidence of the common cold among health care workers in Japan: a randomized controlled trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
“In the meta-analysis of the clinical studies, we found no significant difference between N95 respirators and surgical masks in associated risk of (a) laboratory-confirmed respiratory infection.” https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
“There is no known benefit arising from wearing a mask in a viral respiratory illness pandemic”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AmDEh0eJ-xz02HmCx1_qDpk_swBAWhq6/view?usp=drivesdk
“Surgical, hand made mask and face shields generate significant leakage jets that have the potential to disperse virus laden fluid particles by several meters. The different nature of the mask and shields make the direction of the jets difficult to be predicted, but the directionality of these jets should be a main design consideration for these covers”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GcEE0gJf_fkh9e-QZ-JPjouMy8mHXDUd/view?usp=drivesdk
“Respiratory acidosis develops when air inhaled into and exhaled from the lungs does not get adequately exchanged between the carbon dioxide from the body and oxygen from the air”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313110
Charts of many countries showing uselessness of masking orders being implemented:
https://rationalground.com/more-mask-charts/?fbclid=IwAR2AYNf817ktv571vrnJZagytviEGeYqtDfEwSGgaIQViz3ZdBSx0l79HoI
https://fortune.com/2020/07/29/no-point-in-wearing-mask-sweden-covid/?fbclid=IwAR2f9M6stClpTVHxyLhqCpDrOFfgp4EEslqdtQJjXHRQC6dZLm1ma6dOdkM
https://www.covid19refusers.com/heres-the-science-that-shows-face-mask-mandates-are-political-and-not-medical/
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/05/23/physicists-new-study-why-masks-dont-work-how-governments-are-operating-a-science-vacuum/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323223/#jpc14936-bib-0006
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TbEkZ0jvake13mQpaKsgC0ogLbWPqms0ndLYmZGvLNc/mobilebasic
https://www.globalresearch.ca/medical-doctor-warns-bacterial-pneumonias-rise-mask-wearing/5725848
Prof CARL HENEGHAN of EBM Oxford University says the evidence suggests masks increase your chances of getting sick. Here is a quote:
“Let’s be clear, the high quality trial evidence for cloth masks suggest they increase your rate of reinfection.”
These are the credentials of professor Carl Heneghan:
https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/about-us/team/carl-heneghan
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2020/10/german-neurologist-warns-against-wearing-facemasks-oxygen-deprivation-causes-permanent-neurological-damage/
And last but not least the latest science straight from the CDC website:
70.6% of those who tested Positive ALWAYS wear a mask.
Those who tested Positive and NEVER wear a mask was 3.9%
See for yourself here:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1FFuBJLFYLXW44xvO_o_fZD5mmY2RnMAnzf0LkghziZvK5CcLcmFW2rKI
ARE YOU NOW READY TO LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE AND STOP PROMOTING MASK WEARING FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC?
mmmm sorry … I beg to differ. Masks do not work …. https://swprs.org/the-face-mask-folly-in-retrospect/
Covid19 has been upgraded to an A status flu which is equivalent to Ebola, but with a death rate of only 0.15% which is almost nothing compared to Ebola which had a death rate of 50%, so we can’t really speak of a pandemic. We are just being cheated, because behind the covid19 is a completely different agenda in which governments will impose more restrictions on us at the expense of our freedom. Everything is a powerplay in which put the governments put a knife on our throats only to force us to take the vaccine which gives no protection, will affect our immune system and DNA system, and ultimately cause death, but they (governments) are rewarded for this.