Wearing a face mask decreases your risk of being infected with coronavirus risk by 65%, scientists find

Mask wearing is still not compulsory.
It's a big stuff up by Dan.

We have to try something different this time.

Face masks: Aussies ‘let down’ by official advice on wearing masks

Coronavirus expert Dr Norman Swan has said Canberra’s failure to mandate mask wearing weeks ago may have contributed to Victoria’s outbreak.
Speaking on Channel 10’s The Project on Friday, Dr Swan said the spread of virus aerosol droplets could have been limited by people wearing masks.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday urged, but stopped short of mandating, the wearing of masks in public in Melbourne.
Asked about Mr Andrews’ advice, Dr Swan said, “It’s not before time.
“I think we would have benefited from mandating masks maybe two or three weeks ago when you started to see the suburbs in Melbourne that were hot spots.
“We will never know the difference that would have made.
“They don’t protect you so much but they stop you spreading these aerosols.
“I think Victoria has been let down at a national level because the national committee advising the government has been down on this aerosol spread, that goes through the air.
“And they have been down on masks for a long time and it has been perplexing.”
Dr Swan, from the ABC, was referring to the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC), which is based in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and co-ordinates health advice for Australians on the pandemic.
Asked by Project host Waleed Aly about the theory that if people wear masks, they stop social distancing, Dr Swan said, “There is no evidence of that – none whatsoever – in studies that have been done of masks. In fact, quite the opposite.”


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Dan has just spoken -

288 new cases today after massive testing.

Advice is that masks be worn.

Chairman Dan is a nuisance.
We don't need another lockdown -
we need tougher rules on how we interact:

face masks to be worn in shops, on trains etc,
no more than 2 visitors at anyone's home,
restaurants restricted to 1 person every 4 square meters etc.

Just follow strict rules and we'll get through it.

His last lockdown didn’t work because as soon as he reopened the place
all the cases came back.
We need something we can live with till a vaccine arrives.

Good post.
That's all we needed - MASKS - not another lockdown.

Wearing a face mask decreases your risk of being infected with coronavirus risk by 65%, scientists find

Wearing a face mask dramatically reduces your risk of falling ill with the novel coronavirus, scientists have found.
A team from the University of California Davis Children's Hospital has found that covering the nose and mouth decreased the risk of COVID-19 infection by 65 percent. 
Previously, researchers believed that mask-wearing was only beneficial to prevent transmission of the virus to others.
But, as more studies have found, the piece of cloth doesn't just stop a sick person from spreading the virus, but also protects healthy people from falling ill.
'Everyone should wear a mask,' Dr Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital, said during a July 2 livestream.
'People who say, 'I don't believe masks work,' are ignoring scientific evidence. It's not a belief system. It's like saying, 'I don't believe in gravity.' 
There are two main methods by which the coronavirus spreads with the first being via droplets that are expelled into the air when a person coughs or sneezes.
Researchers say these droplets are about one-third the size of a human hair, but visible to the naked eye.
The second way is from aerosol particles that humans spray into air when we speak, which are one-onehundreth the size of a human hair and nearly impossible to see.
This method is more dangerous in terms of transmission, but can be lessened by avoiding crowded indoor spaces. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8503445/Wearing-face-mask-decreases-risk-infected-coronavirus-risk-65.html