I've grown completely intolerant of the mask debate... It's a real simple situation.
Multiple people indoors... running their mouths... mostly keeping 6 feet (2 meters) apart:
All masked... about a 3% infection rate. Mixed masked about a 6% infection rate. No masks about a 17% infection rate.
Masking doesn't offer significant safety under any scenario. It does offer some reduction in infectious spread when most people wear them. Some is better than none...
It's the most economical and frankly the only preventative widely available globally until vaccines and treatments are developed.
Finally... no body gives a rat's ass what you look like in a mask...
Multiple people indoors... running their mouths... mostly keeping 6 feet (2 meters) apart:
All masked... about a 3% infection rate. Mixed masked about a 6% infection rate. No masks about a 17% infection rate.
Masking doesn't offer significant safety under any scenario. It does offer some reduction in infectious spread when most people wear them. Some is better than none...
It's the most economical and frankly the only preventative widely available globally until vaccines and treatments are developed.
Finally... no body gives a rat's ass what you look like in a mask...
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