Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   Mr H If everybody follows your wise advice Date:   8/11/2020 9:57:00 PM

Easy answers to all.  Please remember that I do not consider the mask to be protection from the virus.....and I sure as hell would scurry away from someone unmasked who is coughing or sneezing, even though I wouldstart out six feet or more away AND wearing a (hardly useful) mask as required by the government.  The aerosols are there and one needs to stay the hell away.  Now, let me say this:  whatever school allowed those masses of students to occupy the same narrow hallway without requiring any protection was being pretty dumb, because distancing was nigh on to impossible.  The virus is there, no doubt.  Not allowing for adequate separation flies in the face of logic, and unnecessary infections will be the likely outcome.

Bottom line:  Masks might be somewhat useful in reducing the likelihood of transmission FROM the infected one (by way of the "big droplets"), but it is not the panacea that some would have you believe.  Folks need to use good judgement!