Wearing face masks...it’s controversial for sure. I will wear one if I have to go to a store or to our closing. This is what we are now being told...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging all Americans — even people who feel healthy — to wear cloth face masks or homemade face coverings in public when 6-feet social distancing is difficult to maintain in an effort to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The new guidance, announced Friday, is a reversal from previous CDC recommendations that face masks need to be worn only by people who are sick with COVID-19, the or by those caring for someone who is sick.
From recent studies we know that the transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the Disease, so in light of these studies, the CDC is advising the use of nonmedical cloth face coverings as an additional voluntary public health measure.
The CDC says its updated recommendation “complements and does not replace” instructions which call on older adults and people with underlying health conditions, in particular, to stay home as much as possible and to avoid others.
It's also important to remember to wash your hands often with soap and water (scrubbing for at least 20 seconds) and to stay home if you are feeling sick, health experts emphasize.
Face masks are “just one more layer of protection and the scale and scope of what we're facing, mandates that we take every precaution we can.”