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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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I suppose some wish the mask to be a mandated future attire. To protect "others" from catching the virus, the Flu, a common cold, etc. Sorry, but I haven't worn my mask since the second week after I received my vaccination.
Like I said before, if that bothers anyone then they can stay home. And I have never had the flu so I do not get the flu shot. So, during flu season and you all wish to wear you masks, go for it. I have no intention of wearing one. If that makes you think that I am bad, then so be it. If I ever feel threatened by a contagious disease, I have a military gas mask that I will wear, not a useless piece of paper or a spare sock.