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I have read where many posters use medical personnel as examples of why to wear a mask during a pandemic. Apparently, some of those posters do not realize that those little cloth masks are NOT being used by medical personnel when dealing with pandemics. They quarantine areas of hospitals and enter only with full bio hazard suits. Did you see anyone being treated for Ebola by medical personnel wearing only a face mask? And yet, you all feel that a mask is going to save you? You shame others for not wearing one? Why are you not wearing gloves, long sleeved shirts, long pants, eye and head protection? Surly you are not naive enough to think that a simple homemade cloth face mask is going to save you if you are exposed? This is not a simple cold.

I apologize. I am not trying to discourage anyone. Wear your placebo just like I do when I go out to shop. If it keeps your spirits up, then the mask is working in one manner, at least.