Also, the darned things fog up my glasses every time I exhale.

Is there any value in recycling your exhaled carbon monoxide? It has seemed from the start that masks are able to provide much more harm than good, especially home-made. Has anyone noticed that areas that are more likely to practice common sense personal hygiene have lower outbreaks than places that don't? As business struggle, dope houses are doing a booming business. But that is not reported in the news. You have to know someone to get the real news. Although one is no worse than the other.

Not me! I haven't seen any mask studies that produced statistically significant results https://fee.org/articles/stop-forcing... . Therefor the model makers must have assumed something that's not true. Indeed, they didn't reference any paper that found mask usage to be statistically significant.

Watching the creation of The State Science Institute is one reason for my sig:

Atlas Shrugged was supposed to be a warning, Not A Newspaper!

We were out shopping yesterday. Most people were not wearing masks except for some store employees, presumably company policy. We noticed masks over the mouth but not the nose, masks under the chin, and non-mask masks (looks like a mask but obviously leaks all around).

I'm waiting to see this scenario:
- "You have to wear a mask."
--- Puts on bright red TRUMP 2020 mask.
- "Take off that mask!"

I don't. In part because they're a complete waste of time (why continuously expose yourself to your own pathogens?) and because the only ones which are effective at anything are the N95 masks that no one but healthcare providers should be getting right now.

Me? I'm not in the major risk category (>60 with pre-existing condition). I want to get this virus and get it over with. Heck, if the samples from NY, Chicago, and California are accurate, I'm probably one of the 1-in-five who got it and were completely asymptomatic.

I haven't worn one so far and have no plans to wear one. With that said if a place that I need to do business with requires it to do business with them I will try to shop elsewhere and then adjust as necessary.

The reason I asked was the quote : “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

It absolutely pisses me off that we are keep being told we need to wear a mask to keep from infecting someone else. I do NOT feel it is my duty to take care of someone else (unless I wish to)

I don't. I'm seeing my dermatologist tomorrow and they want me to wear one, so I will. Some stores here require it and I don't use those stores.

Unless you're in crowded spaces, the precautions you take during a bad flu season are effective prevention I saw a photo of a guy in line at the grocery store wearing scuba gear. I loved it.

Well I do not wear a mask.
I think it depends on where your live and go to.

See the good pros and cons given on Dr Mecola's site -
ref Olduglycarl
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...