Originally Posted by
Taksin
Or maybe we should be free to wear what we want?
They don’t seem make any positive difference anyway - and the science has already concluded that they don’t so this looks like a propaganda exercise to me. This supposed outbreak comes well after they were being widely used.
The masks are supposed to stop people who have Covid-19 symptoms (or are asymptomatic), and are wearing the mask,
passing the virus to other people.
Just because you're wearing a mask doesn't stop you catching it.
Two people together wearing masks should, in theory, be safe from catching it from each other.
Somebody who has Covid-19 and isn't wearing a mask, can pass it on to anyone - the mask is supposed to be a barrier to stop the virus entering the air/atmosphere around the "carrier".
If you go out on the street (and this has applied for months) you'll find anything from zero percent to forty/fifty/sixty
percent of people wearing masks. This means anyone not wearing a mask may potentially pass the virus on to anyone else.
(that's my understanding of how it should work)
There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief
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