Thu Dec 16, 2021, 11:32am
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
It's a respiratory droplet infection.
While the efficiency of various types of masks can be debated, there can be no debate that wearing a mask is better than not wearing a mask, for both the mask wearer (protecting one's self, and others) and for those that don't wear a mask in the presence of others who may have COVID, either symptomatic or asymptomatic and are masked.
Mask wearing is a simple, common sense, and low-cost strategy to mitigate COVID transmission, with few serious side effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084286/
Doctors wear masks during surgery for a reason and it's not to look cool. |
Surgeons don't wear gaiters! 
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