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[QUOTE="pj, post: 3482787, member: 2524"]
Your usual idiocy. First, picking up virus from a surface and then touching your mouth is the primary way this virus is transmitted. So if that were the lone benefit of a mask, it would be a great boon. But second, masks also stop aerosol transmission which is significant and even dominant in crowded environments. Masks are very effective. N95 masks bring the probability of transmission down 99.9%. If everyone wore them, R0 would go down from 3-5 to 0.03. The virus would die out in short order. Instead of hundreds of millions infected and millions dead, we would have a few thousand deaths.

Then you object to making billions of masks because that would screw healthcare workers by depriving them of masks. Hard to be dumber than this. Making more masks gets more masks to healthcare workers, not fewer.

It costs about ten cents to make a mask. If you use a mask a day, that's $36.50 per person per year. For $36 we would save countless lives and disability. The only thing standing in the way is manufacturing capacity. And nitwits like you who object to simple, inexpensive, and effective means to combat infectious disease.
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