[cherylncliff]

N95 masks, if properly fitted and worn, will protect you from inhaling viral particles. If you touch the mask or a contaminated surface and then rub your eye or nose then you have infected yourself. Cloth and paper masks provide very little protection to the wearer. The recommendation to wear masks was made to prevent asymptomatic people or people not yet feeling ill but still infectious from further spreading the virus. In other words, wearing masks is to protect others. If everyone wears a mask in public then we protect each other. If you do not care about your fellow human being, then do not wear a mask but if they then get sick from you and infect someone you love, you have to live with the consequences.