You do realize masks don’t do anything.
Then all those doctors and nurses in hospital operating rooms must feel pretty dumb.
Do not transfer technology for an appropriate situation to another. The logic is not there.
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While at Home Depot, I pull my mask down in solidarity of those not using one, yet will put it up if in a populated aisle. Droplets while talking (and I hate to admit a little spit might come out on some consonants) is probably a reasonable concern. I figure if I’m breathing through my nose I’m not endangering anyone, so sometimes just cover my mouth.
When at first they said masks wouldn’t help, I admit I thought this was going to get bad. Thinking it was totally airborne, I feared hospitals having to put everyone in negative-pressure rooms. The fact this was to only protect mask supply enrages me. Right from the start they should have said a simple bandana will prevent casual transmission through droplets. N95 masks are appropriate for medical workers swimming in clusters of floating virus, but any cloth will stop spit. I’m guessing surgeons’ masks solely protect from bodily fluids going in either direction during surgery.
Hey, since some others have mentioned disgust for how easily we accepted the moniker “Social Distancing” how about we call it DD for “Droplet distancing”. It is technically acceptable and I recoil at government-issued weaselly phrases.