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British Psychiatric Policy and COVID-19

The document discusses the use of face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. It outlines the historical precedents of face covering use, describes how face coverings have become a central part of the UK government's COVID response based on policy guidelines, and examines the mechanisms of education, persuasion and compulsion that have been used to promote compliance. It also considers the influential groups involved and questions around the evidence, ongoing compliance, and whether face coverings will remain common after the pandemic.

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British Psychiatric Policy and COVID-19

The document discusses the use of face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. It outlines the historical precedents of face covering use, describes how face coverings have become a central part of the UK government's COVID response based on policy guidelines, and examines the mechanisms of education, persuasion and compulsion that have been used to promote compliance. It also considers the influential groups involved and questions around the evidence, ongoing compliance, and whether face coverings will remain common after the pandemic.

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Integration Health And

Social Policy
Is The British Psychiatric Policy
Comprehensive
The What: historical precedents
 6th century BC images in Persian tombs
 13th century China
 Use in protection in 1800s
 Emergence of previous pandemics
 SARS 2003
 Localised use (East)
 Strong symbolic status (suspicion)
The What: current situation
 Has become central feature of COVID response
 Based on governmental COVID policy guidelines
 “Coronavirus (COVID-19): public use of face coverings”
 Series of themes
 what is a face covering?
 how to wear and care for your face covering
 mandatory face coverings
 face covering exemptions
 helping others
 enforcement measures for failing to comply
 face coverings in the workplace
The how: mechanisms
 Mixture of education, persuasion and compulsion (mandatory
use) politically mixed strength
 Strong base of ‘evidence’ and links to WHO
 ‘U-turn’ in June
 WHO guidance from January/April 2020 - “there is currently
no evidence that wearing a mask by healthy persons in the
wider community setting….can prevent them from infection
with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19”
 to June’s, “governments should encourage the general public
to wear masks in specific situations and settings” WHO
(2020) Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-
19 (April)
The who: influential groups
 A range of parties are identifiable:
 Governments
 Various medical and environmental bodies
 Universities and Research
 WHO and guidance
 Loose ‘Anti-masker’ movement
 Formal political groups and ‘think tanks’
 From range of political positions
 And central – local relations
The why question?
 Simple public health measure
 “observational evidence”
 pragmatic rationale “the difficulty of
physical distancing in many contexts”
 a platform for the dilution of social
distancing rules?
 the promotion of ‘opening-up’ policies?
The future?

 Continued central feature in pre-


vaccine context
 Established as long term habit?

 Questions of evidence?

 Questions of on-going compliance?

 ‘Pandemic fatigue’?
The future?

 Continued central feature in pre-


vaccine context
 Established as long term habit?

 Questions of evidence?

 Questions of on-going compliance?

 ‘Pandemic fatigue’?
The future?

 Continued central feature in pre-


vaccine context
 Established as long term habit?

 Questions of evidence?

 Questions of on-going compliance?

 ‘Pandemic fatigue’?
The future?

 Continued central feature in pre-


vaccine context
 Established as long term habit?

 Questions of evidence?

 Questions of on-going compliance?

 ‘Pandemic fatigue’?

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