Not this argument again. This was perhaps the major statement that made mask wearing such a difficult thing to encourage. People were like if someone else is at risk, ask them to stay at home etc.

It's been proved that masks help the wearer too.

It's also being theorised that masks, due to not being perfect, is giving immunity by exposing one to lower viral loads and leading to very mild or asymptomatic disease.

They do both. Masks that effectively filter in both directions are much better at reducing transmission. Everyone should be wearing N95s or better whenever they’re indoors with someone not in their household.

As an aside, if you have a valved N95, just put some duct tape over the valve and voila, unvalved N95.

It goes both ways. Cutting bone and squirting saline can spray back.

So the doctor is sick and is wearing a mask so that the patient “and others around him” dont get sick even though he’s treating a sick patient? It’s really simple your health your responsibility just like when you go eat McDonald’s. Can you go work out for me to while you’re wearing a mask for my sake I’m getting a little chubby from being confined to my house Just like a criminal. Why do I have to care about other people again as long as I’m not hurting them and how can you prove someone gave you an airborne virus again? In a free Society these questions all need to be answered first