当地时间9月4日，英国“电台对话”（talkRADIO）节目主播马克·多兰（Mark Dolan）在直播中做出了令人满脸问号的举动——一边剪碎口罩，一边声称自己不相信口罩能有效阻止新冠病毒传播↓↓↓
这位主播情绪激动的对观众说道，“如果你们想挽救生命，让国家重回正轨，唯一的选择就是回归正常，要实现这一目标，第一步就是摆脱这些讨厌的、糟透的、该死的、可恶的、难受的、不科学的、没用的口罩！”
Talk Radio host Mark Dolan has cut up his face mask live on air, saying it's the "only way" to get the country back to normal.
The presenter told his listeners: "If you want to save lives and get the country back on track, the only option is to get back to normal and the first step to achieving that is to get rid of these wretched, god awful, damned, blinking, uncomfortable, scientifically empty, useless masks."
他认为，科学界对于口罩是否有效的问题依然存在争议，他先是引用一些所谓专家的话称，戴口罩不能有效防止新冠病毒。之后称，政府要求人们在飞机上佩戴口罩，但“却允许你在吃三明治或喝咖啡时摘下来……这又有什么意义？处处都是双标”。
"And if people do following the rulings on face masks such as on a flight, if you want to have a sandwich or a coffee you're allowed to take the mask off…How does that make any sense? There're double standards everywhere."
他还称国家的防疫”措施导致不少人失业，因此威胁到了人的生命……“防疫措施给我们国家带来的损害，现在已经非常明确了。那就是不仅危害我们的工作生活，也威胁到了成千上万条生命。”
"The damage to our country from COVID measures is now a clear andpresent danger, not only to our way of life and our jobs but to many thousands of lives too."
他还说，“痴迷戴口罩的人都是‘新冠懦夫’，他们会很开心看到每个工厂倒闭，每份工作消失，直到我们国家新冠病例清零为止。”
"The mask obsessives are the COVID cowards who would happily see every last industry closed down and every last job disappear until we reach a state of COVID- zero."
多兰的这段直播片段，很快在国外社交媒体上引发热议，评论区竟然有不少网友表示支持，称口罩“不人性化”且“令人压抑”，还有人吹嘘自己从未戴过口罩……
Several people on Twitter responded to a video shared by the official Talk Radio feed saying they agreed masks were "dehumanising" and "depressing", others boasted that they had never worn one.
但也有人说多兰这是在做戏，很快就会再买一个口罩给自己戴上。
还有不少网友吐槽多兰的举动，批评他“幼稚、自私”，应该有责任心。
“简直太尴尬了，难以置信。”
“幼稚、自私。如果你想挽救生命，就要有责任心，戴上口罩。”
“马克·多兰现在要为那些愚蠢听从了他的话而死去的人、他们的家人、邻居以及同胞负责。真是个自大且邪恶的蠢蛋。”
中国网友看后也纷纷表示主播的操作令人迷惑：“脑子是个好东西”……
据英国政府官网数据显示，英国9月6日新增确诊病例2988例，创5月22日以来单日新增确诊病例最高纪录；截至当地时间9月7日，英国新冠肺炎确诊病例达350,100例，单日新增2948例。
据《卫报》报道，卫生大臣马修·汉考克（Matt Hancock）7日表示，这一状况“令人担忧”， 且新增病例中年轻人居多。“每个人都应做好防护、遵守社交距离，因为不管你多大、你会受病毒影响多大，你都可能会将它传染给其他人……所以，如果你是个年轻人，不要将它传染给你的祖父母。每个人都需要遵守社交距离”。
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The UK health secretary has commented on Sunday’s sharp rise in coronavirus cases, after nearly 3,000 more people tested positive. Matt Hancock said: 'The rise in the number of cases is concerning ... We've seen in other countries across the world and in Europe this sort of rise in the cases amongst younger people leading to a rise across the population as a whole'.
Hancock added: "It's so important that everybody does their bit and follows the social distancing because it doesn't matter how old you are, how affected you might be by this disease, you can pass the disease on to others. So don't pass the disease on to your grandparents if you're a young person, everybody needs to follow the social distancing."
然而，虽然新增病例不断增加，但英国此前仍在推动复工复学……
卫生大臣汉考克称，英国让学校重新开学的决定是正确的，“因为儿童无法接受教育的影响太大了”，并称已经复工的工作环境是“安全”的。
Despite the sharp rise in cases, Mr Hancock said the government was right to reopen schools "because of the impact on children of not getting an education", adding that workplaces which have reopened are "Covid-secure".
据英国《独立报》，英国英格兰地区学校定于9月全面复课，然而英国政府先前说，中学校园内学生不用戴口罩，引发巨大争议。
《独立报》截图
8月25日晚，英国教育部修改建议发布最新方案：疫情较重地区的中学校园内，学生在公共区域必须戴口罩。
The Department for Education said for most areas of England it is keeping its guidance against using face coverings — but schools will be able to make their own decision whether to ask pupils and staff to wear them.
Pupils will have to wear masks in communal areas of schools such as hallways — but not classrooms.
按照该声明，在英格兰因疫情“封城”的地区，例如大曼彻斯特地区，七年级及以上学生在公共区域活动时应该戴口罩；而在其他地区，学生是否戴口罩，由每所学校灵活掌握。
From 1 September, secondary schools in areas of England where there are local lockdowns (like Manchester and Birmingham) will have to ask staff and pupils to wear face coverings when moving around the building and in communal areas where social distancing is difficult to maintain.
Masks will not be mandated in the classroom and are not required wearing for schools elsewhere in the country — although leaders will have the discretion to require face coverings if they believe that is "right in their particular circumstances," said the government.
至于在教室内是否要戴口罩，英国教育部认为没有必要：一来教室内桌椅已经按照保持社交距离规定分散摆放，同时还有其他保护性措施，二来教室内戴口罩可能影响学习质量。
据新华社报道，英国教育部说，他们依据世界卫生组织的建议作出上述修正。
世卫组织此前曾于8月21日表示，如果所处环境下成年人需要戴口罩，那么年龄在12岁及以上的未成年人也应该戴，特别是在病毒传播率高的地点，以及保持一米社交距离这一规定难以得到遵守的地点。
综合来源：新华社，环球网，Gov.UK，BBC，独立报，太阳报
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