The masks do not have a check valve that allows the virus to go one way and not the other. They are not one way. The virus can enter your body through your eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The virus mostly leaves your body through your mouth and nose. When someone wears a mask correctly, and they are contagious, most of the contagion is caught in the mask. Any contagion that makes it by the mask can enter another person through their eyes, ears, nose and mouth, unless they are wearing a mask. Then they are less susceptible to breathing it in, but they can still get infected if it enters their eyes or ears. Catching the contagion before it enters the air is more effective than trying prevent it from entering your body by wearing a mask, hence the diagram I posted is correct although the actual percentages are subjective. In other words, the mask covers most of the ways a wearer can transmit the virus, but only 1/2 of the avenues the wearer can contract it and the type of mask makes a difference in the amount of the virus it catches.

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The masks do not have a check valve that allows the virus to go one way and not the other. They are not one way. The virus can enter your body through your eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The virus mostly leaves your body through your mouth and nose. When someone wears a mask correctly, and they are contagious, most of the contagion is caught in the mask. Any contagion that makes it by the mask can enter another person through their eyes, ears, nose and mouth, unless they are wearing a mask. Then they are less susceptible to breathing it in, but they can still get infected if it enters their eyes or ears. Catching the contagion before it enters the air is more effective than trying prevent it from entering your body by wearing a mask, hence the diagram I posted is correct although the actual percentages are subjective. In other words, the mask covers most of the ways a wearer can transmit the virus, but only 1/2 of the avenues the wearer can contract it and the type of mask makes a difference in the amount of the virus it catches.

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So you both feel comfortable getting within say 2 feet of another person wearing a mask?

So you both feel comfortable getting within say 2 feet of another person wearing a mask?

What orifice did you pull that out of? I never implied any such thing, but if I am in a grocery store and someone walks within 2 feet of me, I'd much rather them be wearing a mask than not.

So you both feel comfortable getting within say 2 feet of another person wearing a mask?

What orifice did you pull that out of? I never implied any such thing.

Just asking a question, but I take it from your defensive, somewhat offensive, non-response that the answer is "no" and you still distance yourself 6 feet from another mask wearer.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

A) My comment was no more offensive than your "getting competent medical advice from Facebook" dig at me. Civility is a 2-way street.
B) You are correct. I still practice 6' social distancing as much as I can, and wear a mask indoors in places where I may not be able to control the social distancing as much. I plan to continue that until the majority choose not to wear a mask, whenever that may be.