Voices: Why it’s time to wear face masks again

I wouldn’t want to make what is turning out to be an unusually miserable January even worse, but I feel bound to remind you that, well, Covid isn’t over.

This week, the Spanish health department reimposed in hospitals and health centres. They have not done this because of some spontaneous tyrannical tic, but because there’s been a surge in respiratory illnesses of all kinds – flu (which we know is more dangerous than we like to think), , the common cold, and the various . It’s a common-sense, precautionary step that will probably slow the spread of the disease, especially among more vulnerable folk, ie