Exactly! If you’ve been exposed to the virus, it makes a ton of sense.
When I last got COVID, I:
self-quarantined as much as possible, keeping as much distance as I could
wore a surgical mask (best mask I had) until I was able to get an N95 mask (about a day)
wore the N95 mask whenever I was anywhere near anyone until I was able to effectively quarantine
But that’s not an everyday thing. Once I had confirmed I was negative, I stopped wearing the mask in public. There’s no need, I’m healthy and I’m around other healthy people. I’m not going to wear a mask out of fear of what might be out there, I’ll wear it when I’m near people who are at-risk or when asked. I’m not going to wear it 24/7 though.
You’re supposed to wear the mask so that you don’t expel covid (or anything else) onto other people. It’s not for your protection.
It does also protect masked uninfected people from unmasked infected people. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883189/ , especially section 4.
Exactly! If you’ve been exposed to the virus, it makes a ton of sense.
When I last got COVID, I:
But that’s not an everyday thing. Once I had confirmed I was negative, I stopped wearing the mask in public. There’s no need, I’m healthy and I’m around other healthy people. I’m not going to wear a mask out of fear of what might be out there, I’ll wear it when I’m near people who are at-risk or when asked. I’m not going to wear it 24/7 though.
You’re part of the problem.
Nobody’s asking you to wear it 24/7. They’re just asking you to wear it when you’re around people. It really isn’t hard. I’ve been doing it for years.