Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "'You have a societal responsibility' to control virus, Fauci says" video.
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@David-vn2id seems that you haven't been listening.
The cloth face coverings that everyone is wearing now aren't supposed to protect you from breathing the virus, they are to reduce how much virus a sick person spreads.
When you breathe, droplets can go several feet, and droplets will mostly be stopped by the a bandana or simple cloth mask.
So they are to reduce the spread of the virus, not to protect the wearer, but to protect others.
And if everyone wears them, most of virus spread will stop, because the spit bombs won't fly away.
And they made it clear why they recommended at the beginning against buying masks, and that was because if everyone was buying up all the n95 masks, they would not be able to get what they needed for the actual medical staff working in rooms full of coughing sick people.
If mask availability had not been an issue, they would have asked everyone at the beginning, but with a lock down they achieved something very similar.
Also, they didn't lie, because at the beginning they were saying that wearing a mask won't protect you from breathing the virus, unless it's an n95 respirator, and that's still true.
But now we are being asked to wear masks not to protect ourselves, but to protect everyone else.
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