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Originally Posted by U.S. Surgeon General
@Surgeon_General
There remains scant evidence wearing a mask- especially improperly- provides much benefit to a healthy wearer.
However emerging data suggests facial coverings may prevent asymptomatic disease transmission to others.
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6h ago as of 1230 pacific time 02 Apr 2020
emphasis mine
if you're doing it wrong, it's gonna be wrong. As for dead horses, the doctor in the first video stressed that the purpose of wearing a mask was to help the wearer become alert to the unconscious habit of touching one's face and to stop doing it. so if you're doing it, touching your face either because you're wearing a mask or because you don't have a mask to help you become aware that you're touching your face, you're still not helping yourself by touching your face and the mask is irrelevant. I suppose if the mask makes you touch your face *more*, that's a problem, but maybe you're just not using the right mask.
Everybody says stop touching your face.
If a mask helps accomplish this, great. Pockets work too--until you take your hand from your pocket to touch your face. The current news that masks maybe/probably help reduce transmission of the disease FROM asymptomatic carriers is good news in addition to any face touching reductions masks may facilitate.