And the cure for incorrect wear is EDUCATION, not telling folks masks don’t work.
There is something worse than being an optimist. That is being disconnected from reality. Masks are bad for healthy people and the the people pushing them at this point are either useful idiots or just plain idiots.
I was just at my Doctors office today and guess what, this is an excellent place to wear a mask. And, yet once the diagnosis moved away from the possibility of an infectious illness, I was allowed to remove the mask because it would mess up the measurements of blood oxygen, pulse and blood pressure.
Wearing masks outside where the virus can only exist for minutes is useless. Wearing it inside when you are not sick is useless. So, you are left with the only people who really should be wearing masks are those who are sick, who shouldn’t be out and about and people who suspect they may be sick but don’t know yet.
The problem with relying on education to tell people to do things they don’t want to and will hurt them is that they hate you and they find ways to remove you from their lives except for if you are some TIN POT DICTATOR who forces them with threats of violence and financial ruin to accept and comply.
Worse, once you have done this you can’t go back to this well when it would be helpful. So, work out when and how to wear masks that make sense and then you can start educating people on this. Lying to them and terrorizing them is the way to counter educate them. This is what you are advocating.
Honest, I really started on your side of this debate, but the evidence piled up and I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
1) Asymptomatic Super-spreader is a myth.
2) Corona is spread primarily by airborne particles - not surfaces - only high filtration masks offer any protection to the wearer. (most people are not using these, thus for most this is security theater)
3)Touch protection of the face isn’t working - deal with it - don’t increase your hang
4) Face mask wearing is social terrorism, convincing people of a threat that simply doesn’t exist.
5) Wearing masks not specifically designed for breathability leads to CO2 rebreathing, concentration of virus particles in the mouth, nostrils, and windpipe of the mask wearer, increasing the severity of their exposure and likelihood of hospitalization or death. CO2 rebreathing and stress for prolonged periods lower resistance to disease.
But, the folks who initially explained this backed off of this because of Terror and compliance which is politically useful for the folks who want economic disaster.