I've seen the math. It is a virtual certainty that 30 trillion people will die from the evil COVID 19 before it is contained. I have my ticket to Mars booked on Elon's first flight.

@BDair

Wearing a mask in your car is like wearing your seatbelt while parked in your driveway.

@BDair that is not what I meant and I'm pretty sure you know it.

Wearing a mask for most activities outdoors, is like wearing your seatbelt in your driveway. CV19 doesn't go leaping from passers by and infect everyone in all directions within 6'. Transmission occurs indoors with prolonged exposure, according to the CDC.

@BDair . If you are in a situation such as a supermarket and other people are not wearing a mask, the simple act of standing in line will infect you if they are carrying the virus. When a person is passing by outdoors while they are coughing or sneezing the spray goes out more than six feet. If you are wearing a mask it will intercept most of the projected mist. Just be sure to wash up when you get home. Making statements to the contrary is also detrimental because you might influence someone who cannot figure out the problem.

Masks are required to enter businesses. That is reasonable. Someone sneezing in your direction outdoors is very unlikely to subject you to enough of a viral load to infect you.

@BDair Most of all the mask mandates I have seen to date in the US only require masks when indoors. In much of Asia masks are required anytime you are in public, the number soeak for themselves our over a quater a million dead to Taiwan's 7 dead