Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
I'm getting confused about the "rules", because they keep changing. It used to be that wearing face masks was discouraged because it made lay-people touch their face more often, and gave them a false sense of protection, and took away the protections meant for professionals that are in short supply...but now I'm hearing "health experts" say we should wear masks when we take short jaunts to the grocery store.

WTF?
It's N95 masks you're supposed to save for professionals - they're the ones that make it reasonably safe to breathe around the infected. Surgical masks are what they're talking about when they say you should wear them for short jaunts, but they mostly protect other people from you by capturing moisture as you exhale it. They're not very effective at protecting you from other people, but they're not totally ineffective either.