Newsweek

CDC’s School Mask Guidelines Fuel a Culture War That Europe, WHO Avoided

The use of face masks for children as a means to combat the spread of COVID-19 has rapidly become a major point of contention and added fuel to the fire of the long-running U.S. culture war. The issue ...

British anger (and culture wars) erupt over face masks for flu crisis

Hospitals are battling an unprecedented level of flu cases this early in winter, as thousands seek treatment. Politicians ...

Britain has a flu crisis and face masks are back. So are culture wars

Hospitals are battling an unprecedented level of flu cases this early in winter, as thousands seek treatment daily.
JSTOR Daily

Writing against “Mask Culture”: Orientalism and COVID-19 Responses in the West

Anthropologica, Vol. 63, No. 1, The Bureaucratic Practices of Migration: Giving Shape to COVID-19 / Les routes bureaucratiques de la migration: Donner forme à la COVID-19 (2021), pp. 1-14 (14 pages) ...
The Economist

What are FFP2 masks, mandatory in some European countries?

IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE few people now wear cloth masks as protection against covid-19. Instead, they don surgical or, increasingly, FFP2 masks, a highly efficient medical grade. Meanwhile, in Britain ...