Originally Posted by MyAngels:
It's my understanding that if you see a healthcare worker wearing a mask it's just another layer to try to protect their sick patients. Mostly they wear them for surgery (same reason, protecting the patient). You can have the coronavirus and not even show symptoms, so this could protect an already immunocompromised patient from contracting something from the healthcare worker, not the other way around.
That was my understanding as well.
Thankfully, we keep masks in the house anyway because I use them when blowing leaves and mowing grass. If don't, I feel sick for days.
I went to walmart yesterday and the shelves in the OTC medication aisle were pretty bare. That was the first time I had seen it like that. I talked to a guy who said he just came from a different walmart because the medication shelves at the one he originally went to were bare.
It's interesting.