“Most particularly and most importantly for the ill who are not hospitalized and for health care workers.”
It’s a SARS. Everybody needs to wear a face mask.
This type of thinking is why SARS-2 spread so quickly in the West but not Korea or Japan. They know from SARS-1 in 2000 that people are contagious days or weeks before showing symptoms. This is why EVERYONE wears a face mask in those countries, from door to door. They figured this out twenty years ago.
Eventually, when there are enough for everyone to have a 50 day supply the MSM will be screaming “facemasks” 24/7. Or possibly not to maintain their Katrina blame-the-Republican-President narration. I never wait on the MSM to decide what is right.
“This type of thinking is why SARS-2 spread so quickly in the West but not Korea or Japan. “
No. In Korea and Japan they quickly got the jump on testing and isolating the positives.
“They know from SARS-1 in 2000 that people are contagious days or weeks before showing symptoms.”
No. From the CDC:
Available information suggests that persons with SARS are most likely to be contagious only when they have symptoms, such as fever or cough. Patients are most contagious during the second week of illness.
“This is why EVERYONE wears a face mask in those countries, from door to door. “
It’s obvious you have never been there.
In many Asian countries many people do wear face masks (***) but it is not EVERYONE, ever.
(***) They wear masks first and foremost when THEY are ill with a flu-like illness, coughing or sneezing and don’t want to infect others. They wear them during the flu season to protect themselves when they will be in crowded public places, like public transportation and street crowds. They do no always wear them all the time in every situation outside the home. Context - close contact - is the key.