05-15-2020, 09:32 AM
(05-15-2020, 07:51 AM)Sled21 Wrote: But masks work, right? Isn't that why everyone is being shamed into wearing them?
Masks are only effective if people use them.
If you're comfortable going to a large public sporting event in the middle of a pandemic with no vaccine, the odds that you're wearing a mask are relatively low.
Also, masks decrease the amount of spread through the air, but most people don't have medical grade masks. Most just have cloth masks and, while useful, those only decrease the spread, not eliminate it.
And even beyond masks, they don't prevent you from, say, touching something that has the virus on it and then scratching your eye or eating something. These are ways the virus is transmitted irrespective of the water particles in the air.