Thanks for the reply. One of those points that you excerpted is rapidly turning into a pet-peeve for me.

The more I read about this, the more I have come to believe that not using masks/face-coverings in public is the single biggest thing that the US got wrong from January through a couple days ago.

And the thing that really annoys me now is that they're still running around saying that a mask protects other people, but not the person wearing it. Of course it's not perfect, but it's not even plausible to think that a mask could block particles in one direction, but not the other. It doesn't even pass the laugh test, but it's discouraging people from using them.

At any rate, I'm a little bit encouraged by the decline in the number of new cases today. Hopefully, it's not just because people were off from work or delayed medical treatment for Palm Sunday. Fingers crossed.