Shouldn’t have cared in the first place. 
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Wearing a mask when sick reduces the chance of transmission. If the target also wears a mask the chance of transmission is reduced further, albeit by a smaller amount.
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Sure?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/health/coronavirus-mask-protection.amp.html
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Even wearing an N95 without eye protection cannot prevent you from becoming infected.
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“May”.
Masks do not offer 100% protection, thus may. Regardless, far better than no mask.
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One thing that I have noticed is that those folks who are wearing masks are doing social distancing. And from what I have read, that is the number one component in keeping one safe. I have heard multiple doctors though disagree at what that distance should be. Some say that the six foot range is good while I have heard others say that ten to twelve feet is the best. And I do agree with the doctor that said consider everyone that you come into contact with has the virus.
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That cannot be shown to be true.
Without eye protection they offer little to no protection at all since the eyes are a primary pathway to the respiratory tract.
They may offer “some” reduction, they are not a preventive, they can’t be.
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“Some” seems to be enough to significantly change infection rates.
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About a week ago I heard a doctor say that he was on a three hour flight and he believes that he was infected through his eyes from the recirculated air on the flight. He was the first and only doctor I have seen on the tube talking about how vulnerable the eyes are.
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I don’t think those wearing the masks are social distancing better, I think it’s the opposite because they have faith in the mask.
The rest I agree with.
Yet we don’t have the evidence to support that claim.
If your eyes are not protected you have a direct pathway into the respiratory system.
More should be. This is the most basic day one stuff from any microbiology lab class.
Well I was just speaking about the folks I come in contact with in my little town. However I get your point.
I do see that the protestors that are wearing masks are grouped together. Dumb.
Masks create a false sense of protection. The less vulnerable people are or think they are the less likely they are to practice it.
You’re still confusing “you should wear a mask” with “not wearing a mask puts you at risk.” The first is completely correct; the second is totally wrong.
Natural selection would be everyone going maskless and going on with their lives.
We’d end up with a much stronger and more gene pool when it finished culling the population.
Virtually everything we do today in medicine and public health is to prevent natural selection.
There is no evidence that wearing a mask offers any significant protection. Besides, the initial claim was that Louis brought it on himself by not wearing a mask. I appreciate the slow evolution you are taking from the initial position, but you are still wrong to blame him for his infection.
and without the addition of eye protection the mask can do little or nothing to protect you.
Theory based on animal studies. No evidence in humans, even anecdotal.
