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Originally Posted by merrymini
I do not believe that the masks are only to protect others from yourself. When people have chemo and are immune compromised, they wear masks To protect themselves from others and their germs.
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Thank you! That experience as a patient is why I never understood the original advice that only infected people needed to wear masks. What scientific principle states that mitigating the passage of droplets only works one way?
Sometimes surgical/medical staff wear masks to help protect patients from their possible germs and sometimes patients wear them to improve their own chances of not catching something. Both ways!