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The main reason you wear a mask is to not infect others.
If you are close to people that are infected without them knowing (which is the majority of the infected people) and they don't wear a mask and they caugh or sneeze or even talk you, you are MUCH more likely to get infected than if they'd were a mask. So if everyone wears a mask, the virus spreads much slower. It's just common sense, I don't understand why it's even debated.
I live in South Korea, were everyone wears a mask and it's not even mandatory (except in public transport in some regions). People were a mask because they don't want lockdowns like in other parts of the world. We have never had any lockdowns here and are able to go to bars, cinemas, gyms, malls, amusement parks, etc all those things that are considers 'high risk', yet we only have 60 cases a day (it was even 0 some days).
If everyone wears a mask the virus spreads much much slower, and you don't need any of those lockdowns. I rather wear a mask and have a normal life without almost any limitations. Life here has been 99% normal during this pandemic. I'd choose that over not wearing a mask.
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