blindey said:
ChampagneAg said:
Honest question to the forum, no tomatoes please.
Why not just wear a mask?
because the masks they suggested we not wear and save for the medical community are the only ones that would be beneficial. The balance of what passes for a "mask" is useless at best and effectively the head of a match in terms of catching a virus for the wearer at worst.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purposes of widespread mask adoption.
The purpose of a mask is to avoid transmission of the virus. Even a cloth mask greatly reduces the amount of aerosol virus that is expelled and spread by an infected wearer.
You don't wear a mask to protect yourself. You wear a mask as a courtesy to others.
"My mask is for you. Your mask is for me."
Now, you might say "I don't need to wear a mask. I'm not infected." Well, you don't know that. Not until it's too late as you may have been asymptomatically spreading virus for the better part of a week.
When a large enough portion of the population wears masks, public aerosol transmission of the virus is dampened enough to push R0 well below 1.