Masks have been quite common in Japan for decades.
Do they work? Keeping the aspirant spray down, yes they do but for inhalation purposes you need a respirator with a micro bio filter. And I’m not even sure that works against viral pathogens but when I see scientists working behind glass isolation booths in a negative pressure room with gloves and respirators on maybe it does but one would have to go to the extreme in order for it to be effective.
That said I prefer not to share my aspirants as I walk about a store. So I wear a mask. Until I get tested and I prefer not to unknowingly shed because I care not to share.
“Masks have been quite common in Japan for decades.”
Masks are common in China, too. America isn’t Japan or China. We’re audacious people who started the best country on God’s green earth by being bold. If the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers were such wimps we wouldn’t be here. It’s disgusting what we’ve come to — how low we’ve sunk.
“I care not to share.”
Your virtue signalling is ... well, I was going to say “nauseating” ... but I won’t. But as long as it makes you feel smug ... good for you.
News flash. You still share because the masks are ineffective. But you can feel good showing folks how much you care. Masks are the liberals dream - you get to show how much you care without really doing anything useful
This isn't Japan. This is America, damn it! Live free or die!
Then move there.
So the cultures that routinely wear masks contract less flu and common cold than we do? I thought that they wore them in cities To protect against pollution, were asthmatic or maybe they were just paranoid. We need more studies but we won’t get them That are truthful. Science is not science anymore.