[interestica]

> If everyone will permit a rant:

> Don't wear masks in your car alone. Or outside alone. Or outside or in your car with people you live with.

That's not useful. Outside alone and then put on if someone approaches? How does wearing it in your car alone increase exposure?

If you've been outside, you want to reduce the amount of times you're touching and putting on/taking off the mask as those are the moments when you're increasingly possibility of transmission (getting on hands, other surfaces). If I see someone wearing it in the car, I'm assuming it's the best practice: reducing the on/off instances.

[nostromo]

> How does wearing it in your car alone increase exposure?

Because any pathogens you were exposed to in public are behind held up against your mouth for an extended period of time.

[rsfern]

But the point of everyone wearing masks in public is to keep pathogens inside of the masks of those who would be asymptomatic transmitters.

The keep-pathogens-out effect is supposed to be this secondary thing, and I’m not under the impression that it’s even that reliable.

[kyawzazaw]

the point of the public masks is to limit the wearer spreading droplets.

[sharken]

I could swear that most people use them to protect themselves, always look out for number 1.

In Asian countries this might be different though.

[amalcon]

They might think they're wearing them for that reason, and I'll certainly take it. That said, it's not terribly effective for that purpose..