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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The bold underlined part is why sometimes your posts about masks frustrates me.
Masks protect people. Even paper masks protect people. You just said so in this post. No, my paper mask is not likely to offer much (if any) significant protection TO me against your germs. But it is very likely to offer much significant protection FROM my germs against you.
If we are both wearing paper masks, and talking to each other, we have twice the thickness of protection between us, which adds even more protection - including SOME protection to me against you, and to you against me.
That's why paper masks have been and continue to be the recommendation for us "commoner" folk. Indoors, inside buildings other than your own, masks will help. They will help a whole lot if everyone is doing it. Less so if only a few are doing it. Not at all if no one is doing it.
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The post was in response to Fauci's email of 2/20---where he essentially stated that a mask is of little use to protect yourself but much better at protecting others from you. I 110% agree with him. The person who posted that did not understand what Fauci was writing and was trying to use that statement against him, for whatever reason.
Now, universal masking has the benefit of protecting people from each other, although I disagree that having 2 masks increases the protection for the wearer to any extent. But contrary to all the anti-vaxxers that just love to repeat the false claim that vaccinated people can spread the virus just as easily as the unvaccinated---not false because they can't , but false because they do it at a substantially lower rate than the unvaccinated, masks might help to curtail that spread.