Don’t be stupid. Medical personnel need them because they are clearly dealing with sick and effected people. THat’s not necessarily the case when you run to the store or pharmacy. Think a little bit before you write.
Are people really this dumb? A mask prevents inhalation of droplets. It prevents touching the mucous membrane peripheries of the the nose and mouth. If infected it prevents transmission out. Of course everyone right now should be wearing a mask. There are not enough masks for everyone hence the recommendation. Droplets can also get into the eyes and infect via the mucousal back of the eyelids.
Spoke to a nurse working the covid floor(s) today. My county has 106 cases officially. She told me there are more than 500 suspected cases in her hospital right now. It is only one of the mid-sized facilities of the 7 hospitals in our county. If 20% are hospitalized and it takes 5 days from contagion to hospitalization and each non-hospitalized case infects 2.5 more people this thing is going to get a lot worse very quickly.
The stupid is STRONG in this thread!!
“Think a little bit before you write.”
You do know that Covid-19 is a SARS corona virus, don’t you? It is contagious up to two weeks before symptoms and one third of infected people never develop symptoms. But if you want to put your mucus membranes out in the air, unprotected, along with everyone else’s go right ahead.