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Originally Posted by LRZ
... the "exaggerated peril" or "hoax" camp.
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I'm really getting tired of people interviewed on television, or in the newspaper, who don't wear a mask and then cite that the purpose of a mask is to protect one's self, that masks can't filter out tiny virus particles, and that they should be able to control their own health.
They're partly correct, virus particles are extremely small, and masks can do very little (recent research shows that they can help a little) to protect one's self.
Why don't they get the real scientific reason for wearing a mask?
One wears a mask to protect others.
The mask can filter out the larger respiratory droplets exhaled, sneezed, or coughed out by those infected with the virus (many or whom may be presymptomatic or asymptomatic and not realize that they are infected).
Filtering out these larger respiratory droplets means that the virus particles within these larger respiratory droplets are also filtered out. Masks can decrease the virus particles from spreading to those are at high risk, or to healthy individuals who may then spread it to those at high risk.
These individuals show their scientific ignorance by falsely stating the purpose of masks. What else are they scientifically ignorant about?
