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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week we have Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater.

Hello.

And no Ella-Weel in this week, so we have Spiked editor Brendan O'Neill.

Hello?

Coming up on the show, mandatory mask wearing, the Great Uncoupling with China, and the statue was.

The evidence on face masks has always been quite variable, quite weak.

Wearing a mask if you don't have an infection

really reduces the risk, almost not at all.

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