[kurthr]

The point is that half of all carriers and many of the superspreaders are "asymptomatic" as far as they are concerned so how would you know if you were sick to protect others or yourself. That article sounded fairly idiotic then and still does now. Would you want your surgeon operating on you without a mask? Why not? Should they wash their hands, if they think they're clean?

This is a recent paper on masks... https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(20)30072-6