Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Should Stores Require Masks?
View Single Post
 
Old 07-04-2020, 09:33 PM
coffeebean's Avatar
coffeebean coffeebean is offline
Sage
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Village of Mallory Square
Posts: 7,959
Thanks: 463
Thanked 4,353 Times in 2,012 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gulfcoast View Post
If a store has a sign requesting that people wear masks I won't go inside. Interestingly, when I walked up to a store, saw the sign and started to walk away, an employee waved me on into the store. There were others inside not wearing masks.

Who is safer? A symptomatic person wearing a mask or an asymptomatic person not wearing a mask? Would you rather pick up a can of green beans that a symptomatic (sick) mask wearer had touched or would you rather pick up the can that an asymptomatic (not sick) non wearing mask person had touched?
An asymptomtic person can be just as contagious as a symptomatic person. The mask wearing symptomatic person is safer to be around than the asymptomatic person not wearing a mask.
__________________