If one coughs, or even respires heavily (running, shouting); the virus is spread far and wide. If one is wearing a mask, it doesn’t spread as far. Mask wearing is like covering your face with a tissue when you sneeze or cough. No magic required.
USA (little mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 204
Taiwan (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 0.3
S.Korea (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 5.0
Japan (mask-wearing) Deaths/million = 4.0
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
and therefore doesn’t prevent anything that covering ones cough doesn’t prevent
Those numbers are simply made up lies, I tell you, by some second class person without one iota of professional training or expertise. What are numbers when compared to the intellect of a superior mind trained for years by the most prestigious FDA approved medical school imaginable. You simply are unable to comprehend the enormity of such complex matters. Numbers are for the simple minded incapable of linear thought processes required for critical analysis. Do you think just because you own a calculator you actually have the wherewithal to derive any meaningful data from your silly and primitive math?
Who made you an MD? Where's your state certified medical license? You should be ostracized and drummed out of the galaxy. Where is your patriotism, not to mention pride in having just been spoken to by someone of a much higher intellect. How dare you second guess those who put their lives on the line daily every second of every day. How dare you degenerate our far superior medical experts by comparing us with your silly numbers to Asia. How selfish and self-serving!!! Blah, blah, blah...
LOL, but I honestly believe this is the level of what you may expect when presenting some here with even the simplest of facts. But they bear repeating, and I'm completely on your side on this issue...:)
“If one is wearing a mask, it doesn’t spread as far. Mask wearing is like covering your face with a tissue when you sneeze or cough.”
Gross. If you sneeze or cough with a non-medical grade mask on, where’s it’s gonna go? Your eyes, for one place. Even the little metal nose thingies in masks won’t keep that from happening. Seems that sneezing/coughing in the crook of your elbow might be more effective.
But who knows? Even the Surgeon General apparently doesn’t know.