Where are the statistics...

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Originally Posted by Seaplane Pilot

Read this statement from someone in Mass today:

“If masks work, why do businesses need to be closed?

If they don’t work, why are we forced to wear them?”

Excellent point.

This is too vague of a question. The real answer is that people wear cloth masks because there are not enough surgical masks to go around. Surgical masks do protect people. Cloth masks are considered better than nothing. Cloth masks do not protect people from getting the virus. Cloth masks offer "some" protection from someone spreading the virus to others. So wearing a mask is simply being a good citizen to your fellow man in case you happen to be one of the many asymptomatic spreaders. So the answer is, that they really don't work even close to 100% of the time but it's better than nothing and that's why businesses..etc needed to close.