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Originally Posted by RedChariot
Thank You for the clarification.
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Your welcome. And a little further clarification for those who apparently failed to grasp my meaning earlier and are conflating institutional/public health policy with individual protection. Why did the CDC/FAA/NIH advocate masks???? Because in groups it helps prevent the spread of COVID, primarily by decreasing the ability of an infected person to transmit droplets to others. This in turn will reduce the number of infected individuals which then decreases spread and so on. At the very least it spreads out the peak in time so hospitals aren't overwhelmed. However, as individual protection against contracting the virus, paper masks are as close to useless as you can get, which is the point I made rather bluntly. But, I still held out hope that many of those individuals were in the "altruistic" category.