Doctor

I think the real problem is how far it goes. I just heard about a town that wants to make wearing a mask in your HOME mandatory.

Hasn't Sweden done the same?

I agree. I think this was an attack by China on the world. In the beginning, China was seriously cracking down, I heard they were shooting at people who were at an open window in their apartment. Now they are stronger than ever while the west declines.

I swear, it'll get to the point where a foreign country could invade America, and the dems would call a war of defense racist, if the country wasn't European. The Chinese know this better than anyone, and no doubt knew they could conceivably release a plague on the world and deflect with cries about racism, which they have already done.

city/state or just what you read on FB?
So what do you think YOUR dr would advise you to do?

Yeah, never had FB. Just a smaller town somewhere, I forget where.

You may not believe me, but I didn't come here to argue with you. You do also realize that doctors aren't infallible, right? That they have killed up to 200,000 a year because of mistakes? I don't even have a problem with wearing a mask in large gatherings. It's things like being harassed by cops for jogging alone on an empty beach cuz you're not wearing one. This isn't as partisan as people make out.

As someone with a medical degree, I'll answer that. It's neither, unless you can get a proper fitted mask, don't fidget with it and dispose of it once used. Surgical masks, cloth masks, and distributed n95 masks don't fully protect yourself against the covid virus. The n95 masks only protect against .3 microns and larger, the covid is .06 -.15 microns. Do they help? Slightly. However, if you watch how people "use" masks, they're pointless. In the hospital, we have to be properly fitted for an n95 mask and clean shaven for males.
So, in short, yes they can be beneficial to your health, if a proper mask was used the way it was supposed to.