Facemasks seem to be the hot button division item but that's all a distraction. Because wearing the mask, has very little downside.
The WHO argued against border closures as a method to halt COVID-19 yet nearly every country in the world did them. There reason for not having them is the economic impact that primarily impacts poorer countries that rely heavily on tourism to sustain their poor and middle class workers. Everyone fiddles with mask/no-mask but no media is even bothering to look at the economic impact and lives lost due to unadvised border closures.
