"NO NO NO YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE COVID ZONE IN PERSON! YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR MASK OFF EVERY TIME YOU TALK!"
They really are just trying to force people to get Covid, huh?
"NO NO NO YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE COVID ZONE IN PERSON! YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR MASK OFF EVERY TIME YOU TALK!"
They really are just trying to force people to get Covid, huh?
I mean, I hate anybody having to remove their mask against their will, but it's most important that everyone else wear one, right?
Aerosols don't just magically vanish from the air when you put your mask back on. Unless there is air filtration in place in the courtroom, any virus that was hanging out in the air will stay there, and can infect anybody is not wearing a mask at any point, or whose mask doesn't fit that well. It's better than having everybody be unmasked, but it could be better still.
Yeah sure but N95s are incredibly effective for self protection over short periods
Yes. While masks will lower the viral load that you inhale that would infect you, making the covid (or colds or flu for that matter) not as bad because it gives your antibodies a bit of a head start, be main benefits of masks is that it reduces how far an infected person's fluids from reaching through the air to infect a new person.