Jimmy Wales

Later, it's like, no, everybody's got to wear a mask everywhere.

It really works really well.

Then now, I think the evidence is mixed.

Masks seem to help.

In my personal view, masks seem to help.

They're no huge burden.

You might as well wear a mask in any environment where you're with a giant crowd of people and so forth.

But it's very politicized, that one.

It's very politicized where certainly in the US, you know, much more so.

I mean, I live in the UK.

I live in London.

I've never seen kind of on the streets sort of the kind of thing that there's a lot of reports of people actively angry because someone else is wearing a mask, that sort of thing in public.

And so, because it became very politicized, then clearly if Wikipedia – so anyway, if you go to Wikipedia and you research this topic, I think you'll find more or less what I've just said.

Like, actually, after it's all, you know, to this point in history, it's mixed evidence.

Like, masks seem to help, but maybe not as much as some of the authorities said, and here we are.

And that's kind of an example where I think, okay, we've done a good job, but I suspect there are people on both sides of that very emotional debate who think this is ridiculous.

Hopefully we've got quality sources, so then hopefully those people who read this can say, oh, actually, you know, it is complicated.

If you can get to the point of saying, okay, I have my view, but I understand other views, and I do think it's a complicated question, great, now we're a little bit more mature as a society.

Exactly.

And that whole politicization of society is just so damaging.