It's far easier not to touch your face when you're wearing a mask, so I don't get why the American guidance continues to be not to do it. Even a cloth reusable mask helps with it (and is a visible social signal)
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The current messaging (don't buy masks, because you totally don't need them, but medical professionals desperately need them and there's a shortage, even though we promise they won't help you at all!) is not really tenable or realistic about human psychology.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Medical professionals use them properly and get the benefit. Average dumbass doesn't. (This taken from a thread by a medic about N95 masks.)
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Replying to @geeoharee
They serve two other purposes—a barrier to face touching, and a social signal that you are taking the threat seriously.
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