PATed wrote: “At my facility everyone wears isolation masks (the disposable paper masks that are blue on one side). They effectively reduce (but do not eliminate) the risk of spread. A person not wearing one increases the risk for everyone else, and for that reason we won’t treat anyone not wearing a mask. The facility pays for them for everyone (staff and patients) so no one has out of pocket costs.”
How much does not wearing a mask increase the risk?
The masks are not free. Someone pays the cost.
You’re basically repeating the mantra that a person should wear a mask to protect others, not themselves. That is just propaganda.
It’s not propaganda. Available data indicates that if everyone wears makes it reduces spread by 70-80%.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html