# Let's All Wear A Mask (Idle Words)

<https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm>

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## What Jamie wrote

A great overview on why masks should be worn and a call to action to make it socially normalized.

> But that is thinking about it backwards. The point of wearing a mask in public is not to protect yourself, but to protect other people from you. We know that many people who fall ill won't show symptoms during the time when they are most infectious. Some people may even remain asymptomatic through the whole course of the disease, never knowing they had it.

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- [WT143: Weekly Thing #143 / Archetypes, Wear a Mask, Zoom](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/143/), Must Read

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