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Pros: Reduce the droplets in the air May reduce panic/stress? Cons You need to touch your face more often which increases the risk Mask becomes humid after

• jshevek 7y ago
  I wear a mask and it doesn't increase my face touching. In fact, it reduces my face touching because it serves as a perpetual reminder of the situation. It may also signal to other people to keep their distance from me.
• watwut 7y ago
  My mask makes me less likely to touch face. > False sense of security - people engaging in risky behavoiur I dont see people with masks being closer to each other then people without masks.
  • lukasm 7y ago
    "It's ok to visit my parents or neighbours, because I had a mask" "Its ok to sit next to my mate on the train because we had masks"
    • tarboreus 7y ago
      If anything, my experience is the opposite. If people slip into old habits they are reminded to keep a distance by the presence of a mask.
• remarkEon 7y ago
  Pros: all true Cons: Every single one of these is false, especially the face touching part. Folks, this is what I'm talking about so let's do this by the numbers. >You need to touch your face more often which increases the risk You touch your face less (read: zero) when in environments in which you're wearing the mask. And if you're wearing it in public places that's enormously important, since that is where you will get the virus. >Mask becomes humid after a while which is great eniviroment for the virus. The micro-environment of "your mouth and nose" is not going to breed any more virus than the environment around you that wants to inject the virus into your mouth and nose. >False sense of security - people engaging in risky behavoiur [citation needed] >Not enough masks for hospitals And if we'd stopped lying about masks being effective back in early February perhaps we'd have enough of them by now. So let's stop lying about it now to make sure we have enough by May.
  • lonelappde 7y ago
    How does wearing masks create more of them?
    • jshevek 7y ago
      Being honest about their utility can create the motive to ramp up production and improve distribution. This already happened in Taiwan.
    • remarkEon 7y ago
      Signaling social acceptance, meaning more people wear them. Meaning demand number go up. Meaning production number go up.
  • lukasm 7y ago
    First off, we are talking about WHOLE society, not a single responsible user. >You touch your face less (read: zero) when in environments in which you're wearing the mask. That is factually incorrect. Im in Japan right now where vast majority wear masks. People touch face when they want to smoke - because of the mask. When you talk for a bit you have to adjust the mask. Ive seen people scraching there face through the mask. Take it off to talk on the phone. Not a single person takes it off correctly - they just grab by the centre. Why? Maybe they dont know any better or they think its ok because they have a mask. >The micro-environment of "your mouth and nose" is not going to breed any more virus than the environment Thats not the risk model. Virus stays longer in humid enviroment, which meas that masks becomes a more potent vector. Yoxu touch it, leave it on the desk. People reuse their masks, since there is a shortage. False sense of security - people engaging in risky behavoiur. Highest number of deaths on roads happen when conditions are perfect. People drive faster because the road is dry and visibility is good.
    • remarkEon 7y ago
      Yes, the virus affects the whole of society. Not sure what your point is. I've spent plenty of time in Japan and East Asia. I've seen that behavior, sure, but I'm not going to use the exception of some people not using proper mask protocol 100% of the time to argue that masks are useless or no help (to be clear I don't think you're doing this, but without context it comes across this way to the casual reader which is the problem).