The virus spreads through respiratory droplets. People inadvertently spit some saliva out of their mouths when they talk (especially if they shout, sing or breathe heavy). Respiratory droplets even get released when breathing out (though it's unknown how much viral load is in such incidental contact as breathing and how much viral load is necessary to infect another person). So it would make sense for me to cover my face if I don't want your saliva on me and don't want you accidentally coughing or sneezing on me. Particularly because I do come in contact with a vulnerable person (elderly parent with cancer). And it prevents the wearer from sending their saliva, coughs and sneezes to other people as well.
If you want life to get back to normal (and I sure as hell do), it makes sense to wear masks around people outside your 10-person social bubble.
In Toronto and Peel where mandatory masking has been in effect for awhile, cases and positivity rate has dropped like a rock during Stage 2 since the by-laws when into place early July. And this was with Liberals screaming that second wave was coming constantly when Doug Ford moved to Stage 2.
People have theorized that it spreads through respiratory droplets. People who blithely claim that to be true, are repeating a guess as if it were truth.
Now we know that it probably aerosolizes, and this explains why it preferentially spreads to tall people - because droplets sink, and vapors do not sink as fast. We do not yet know the breakdown of risk in the different modes of infection.
We have also known, for a long time, that masks become wet, and may worsen the spread. In fact, this is why the CDC previously recommended against wearing a mask. All of this only impacts people who are already sick, and it's not clear that asymptomatic spread is significant.
The evidence from one region, also stands in stark contrast to numerous other regions whose known infection trends, do not correlate to one or both of masks or lock-downs. The overall pattern is one of neither masks nor lock-downs consistently altering the spread. The only unambiguous correlation is habitation density, which is not affected by either of those measures.
But hey, I won't stop you from wearing one if you want to.
The virus spreads through respiratory droplets. People inadvertently spit some saliva out of their mouths when they talk (especially if they shout, sing or breathe heavy). Respiratory droplets even get released when breathing out (though it's unknown how much viral load is in such incidental contact as breathing and how much viral load is necessary to infect another person). So it would make sense for me to cover my face if I don't want your saliva on me and don't want you accidentally coughing or sneezing on me. Particularly because I do come in contact with a vulnerable person (elderly parent with cancer). And it prevents the wearer from sending their saliva, coughs and sneezes to other people as well.
If you want life to get back to normal (and I sure as hell do), it makes sense to wear masks around people outside your 10-person social bubble.
In Toronto and Peel where mandatory masking has been in effect for awhile, cases and positivity rate has dropped like a rock during Stage 2 since the by-laws when into place early July. And this was with Liberals screaming that second wave was coming constantly when Doug Ford moved to Stage 2.
People have theorized that it spreads through respiratory droplets. People who blithely claim that to be true, are repeating a guess as if it were truth.
Now we know that it probably aerosolizes, and this explains why it preferentially spreads to tall people - because droplets sink, and vapors do not sink as fast. We do not yet know the breakdown of risk in the different modes of infection.
We have also known, for a long time, that masks become wet, and may worsen the spread. In fact, this is why the CDC previously recommended against wearing a mask. All of this only impacts people who are already sick, and it's not clear that asymptomatic spread is significant.
The evidence from one region, also stands in stark contrast to numerous other regions whose known infection trends, do not correlate to one or both of masks or lock-downs. The overall pattern is one of neither masks nor lock-downs consistently altering the spread. The only unambiguous correlation is habitation density, which is not affected by either of those measures.
But hey, I won't stop you from wearing one if you want to.