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The Real Reason to Wear a Mask

• standardUser 7y ago
  "Models show that if 80 percent of people wear masks that are 60 percent effective, easily achievable with cloth, we can get to an effective R0 of less than one." Sounds too good to be true, but it illustrates an important point. We are not trying to prevent all spread of this virus, we're only trying to reduce the rate of transmission to manageable levels. The masks don't need to be perfect, or even close to it, as long as they help bring that transmission rate down. The more we can utilize low impact strategies like mask-wearing and hand-washing, the less we need to rely on more extreme measures.