Hi! Let me tell you why we wear masks. I have 2 kids (plus their significant others) quarantining together. All four tested positive for antibodies, meaning they had COVID-19. 1 had a fever. 2 lost smell/taste for a couple of weeks, but were told by docs not to get tested,/1
...because they didn't have fever. One had no symptoms at all. ALL FOUR HAVE HAD THE VIRUS, but you wouldn't have known it, from their symptoms. THIS is why masks matter. People can have and spread this virus without any symptoms. If you are one of them, and you/2
..wear a mask, you're protecting other people. Someone may look absolutely healthy...FEEL healthy...and still have COVID-19. Masks don't protect you from acquiring the virus, but they protect someone who has it - even someone asymptomatic - from spreading it./3
RECAP: I have 4 kids, 3 asymptomatic, who have recovered from having COVID-19. They wore masks, and that's why people they came in contact with did not get the virus. Moral of this story: Don't be a dick. Wear a mask.
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