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I'm very much willing to accept the inconvenience of wearing-masks, and much more, so my toddler can grow up with their grandpas and grandmoms be around, holding their hands and teaching them how to walk.Īn interesting study and the authors can be commended for the analysis. For a kid, nothing can replenish the unconditional love from grandparents, their kisses and hugs and cakes and smiles. It's worth everything to protect them - our mother and fathers and childhood teachers who protected us when we are young and fragile. They've been hard-working and contributed a lot to their families and their nations. They are grandpas and grandmoms of our children. According to this article, wearing masks is not only to protect the wearer, but more importantly, to protect the others, especially the old ones. But it is indeed life-threatening for the elderly, with a death rate higher than 15% even with adequate medical care.
You may think the COVID19 is not such a big threat and not worth sacrificing your right of free-breath for several months. But the loved ones need to be ALIVE first.įor my understanding, what's been discussed in this review is not permanent mask-wearing, but a temporal in response to the epidemic, and how long it needs to last depends on how well the control policies are implemented, including locked-down, quarantine, social distancing, and yes, wearing masks. Yes, seeing the smiles of the loved ones is important for life. We recommend that public officials and governments strongly encourage the use of widespread face masks in public, including the use of appropriate regulation. Thus we recommend the adoption of public cloth mask wearing, as an effective form of source control, in conjunction with existing hygiene, distancing, and contact tracing strategies. The decreased transmissibility could substantially reduce the death toll and economic impact while the cost of the intervention is low. Public mask wearing is most effective at stopping spread of the virus when compliance is high. The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces the transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected droplets in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Reducing disease spread requires two things: first, limit contacts of infected individuals via physical distancing and contact tracing with appropriate quarantine, and second, reduce the transmission probability per contact by wearing masks in public, among other measures. A primary route of transmission of COVID-19 is likely via small respiratory droplets, and is known to be transmissible from presymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Here, we synthesize the relevant literature to inform multiple areas: 1) transmission characteristics of COVID-19, 2) filtering characteristics and efficacy of masks, 3) estimated population impacts of widespread community mask use, and 4) sociological considerations for policies concerning mask-wearing. Policymakers need guidance on how masks should be used by the general population to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The science around the use of masks by the general public to impede COVID-19 transmission is advancing rapidly.