[jimjamuser]

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.

I agree with the content of this post.