[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“bit for everybody else they are worthless?”

The reasons that medical personnel wear masks, i.e., in the operating room, for example, are to prevent the person wearing the mask from giving their germs to anyone else, not to prevent them from receiving germs from someone else.

Now do you understand?:

Anyone wearing a mask in public is trying to prevent giving their ChiCom virus to anyone else.....or so they say.

[Moonlighter]

Since they also say 1/2 of us don’t know.we have it and inadvertently spreading it, makes all the more sense people in closed/crowded public spaces should mask it. Med folk would be leas exposed and need less PPE then. win-win

[Campion]

The reasons that medical personnel wear masks, i.e., in the operating room, for example, are to prevent the person wearing the mask from giving their germs to anyone else, not to prevent them from receiving germs from someone else.

It works both ways, friend. If you go to an ER now you will see every healthcare provider there wearing masks, face shields, and gowns. That's not to protect you against their germs.

[Sequoyah101]

So if everyone wore a mask then the ones that are infected and don’t know it would have a much reduced chance of spreading it to others?

And the others who don’t have the virus and don’t know that they don’t would bear no ill effects and maybe some positive ones?

Is that right? Hummmm. Thought provoking to some and maybe inspirational to others.

Sounds like a bit of a win-win to me but I’m just dumb about things like this I guess.

[Bonemaker]

“...are to prevent the person wearing the mask from giving their germs to anyone else, not to prevent them from receiving germs from someone else...”

Oh I see....germs can’t get out of the mask but can only come through.