https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52397294
I'm not sure how much sympathy to have for this character. An incredibly stupid thing to do, and has its consequences.
Something really stupid and perverse to do, yes. The problem is that it is difficult to prosecute all this erroneous, incomplete, streaked, twisted, incompetent information, because it would also be necessary to question many official media - the question for example of the uselessness of the masks, ( in in principle and therefore regardless of their priority availability), and the complacent manner in which it was treated by these media, abounding in the sense of what the politicians said, then holding a reverse discourse when the policies changed theirs, when we were able to start acquiring them. And as the health authorities did not agree among themselves, they could always hide behind a source, or an illogical argument, while a real journalistic investigation ... Did we for example produce a solid study showing that those who put on a mask no longer respect barrier gestures or hand disinfection? How many times have we been told this? Okay, a lot of people are not very smart, but it's not by taking them for fools that we progress in achieving a goal (*) These politicians, these authorities, these media, journalists, should be held accountable. This will not be the case.
As for the virus in the air, like a seasonal flu...
(*) It took for example a considerable time to the "authorities" in their communication to pass from messages in terms of "it is necessary"(**) ( to wash your hands for exemple) to others in terms of "it is necessary because" ... And the comprehension which one could have some could then become very different and much more profitable, enlightened, fair, appropriately applicable, adequate.
(**) ( advertising type slogans are not necessarily the best suited for health instructions even if, for example, "e pericoloso sporgersi" on the wall of a railway wagon may not need to be motivated by additional lines.)