I know the conversation these days is (rightly) about preventing presymptomatic transmission from the wearer, but I’m personally still at ~80% that masks probably protect the wearer at least a little, though agree that the effect may not be huge.
Agreed—but **for protecting the wearer alone**, I’d say that 10% more handwashing by most people would easily beat 50% more mask wearing.
In further retrospect, this was very, very incorrect.
I know the conversation these days is (rightly) about preventing presymptomatic transmission from the wearer, but I’m personally still at ~80% that masks probably protect the wearer at least a little, though agree that the effect may not be huge.
Agreed—but **for protecting the wearer alone**, I’d say that 10% more handwashing by most people would easily beat 50% more mask wearing.
In further retrospect, this was very, very incorrect.