Please try and stay focused on Cambodia.

ressl wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:14 pm Why do foreigners refuse to wear a mask?

A little bit too generalized, but ..... forget about face mask, even some foreigners refuse to wear bra and/or undies when going out in public ...
Joking aside, maybe foreigners are so used to (or more critically, spoiled with) the liberty of expressing their opinions (no one can/should tell me what to do) and the inability to withstand any slight discomfort. Though it may be true that the flimsy face mask does not help much in protecting from covid, every little things add up and help. Why jerk around where the ultimate price can be our lives? It's obvious that many of the Western countries have been paying the high price. You know which country I am talking about

latest Gold Standard research

This study is being widely quoted as the definitive word on both
* The efficacy of mask wearing
* The effectiveness of simple campaigns to increase mask wearing in rural, low income populations

Expect to see the flow-on from this research coming to your dusty village sometime soon.

Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows
Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.

A large, randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has found that wearing a surgical face mask over the mouth and nose is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of COVID-19 in community settings.
(trial conducted in Bangladesh)

It also showed that relatively low-cost, targeted interventions to promote mask-wearing can significantly increase the use of face coverings in rural, low-income countries. Based on the results, the interventional model is being scaled up to reach tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia and Latin America over the next few months.

The findings were released Sept. 1 on the Innovations for Poverty Action website, prior to their publication in a scientific journal, because the information is considered of pressing importance for public health as the pandemic worsens in many parts of the world.

“We now have evidence from a randomized, controlled trial that mask promotion increases the use of face coverings and prevents the spread of COVID-19,” said Stephen Luby, MD, professor of medicine at Stanford. “This is the gold standard for evaluating public health interventions. Importantly, this approach was designed be scalable in lower- and middle-income countries struggling to get or distribute vaccines against the virus.”

more..
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/ ... id-19.html