The face diapers people have been wearing are good only as cues to remember to keep your distance and your grubby paws out of your face.
BTW, our doc says the same.
And I'm bloody well not gonna run around in MOPP gear to avoid getting WuFlu. Right now more people in my neck of the woods are dying in MVAs and from lead poisoning than from WuFlu.
I have HAD IT with this crap.
Just 175 days (so far) to flatten the curve.
Not sure what the intention of posting that link was, but it does state repeatedly that mask wearing was found to be effective in reducing the risk of transmission with both Influenza and SARS-CoV-1. They even models how effective it would be to have various amounts of the population wearing masks and found there would even be some minimal benefit to just 10% of the population wearing only a surgical mask. Benefits improved dramatically as the ratio of masked persons increased and the quality of the masks (e.g. moving from surgical masks to N95 masks) improved.
Wearing a mask and keeping 6 feet of distance from those outside your household while in an indoor public environment represent a minimal burden to each of us while providing a benefit in the form of reducing the risk of transmission, which reduces the total number of cases, which reduces the reach of SARS-CoV-2, thus reducing the risk of it reaching individuals who will die from it.