He was not wearing a mask, and I was not wearing a mask either (I forgot to take it with me, and didn't say anything, out of politeness)... He coughed a few times while in the car with me. I'm vaccinated.
Masks don’t work dude, unless it’s a P100. Why on Earth you would want to use one, is another story.
I'm as anti vax as they come, not just anti COVID vax but anti all vaccines as they have harmful chemicals and you can't sue the company if you are injured by it.
But I think there is some protection provided by masks. Any type of mask, even my cloth mask with purposefully large holes in it so I can breath.
People spit when they talk, they may not notice but when I started paying more attention to it due to COVID I noticed, even seeing a tiny bit fly from my mouth into someone else's when he said something funny. If that's not a surefire way to transfer a virus I don't know what is.
Sure they don't stop your breath and the holes are too big to stop a virus but just to prevent spitting on someone is decent. Though that doesn't mean you need it while out jogging as they do here in Panama. If you're talking face to face with someone it makes sense to have one.
Though I still don't wear one when I don't need to. Though I had COVID and am immune so I won't be spreading it.
I agree on the mask comments. Anything you put in front of your mouth helps. Even the palm of your hand. It's no coincidence that most of us have a habit of covering our mouth when we cough. We learned this from our parents, and it helps. The thing is, when we speak (much more when we cough), tiny droplets come out of our mouth, like little projectiles. Putting even a piece of cloth in front of our mouth will slow them down, to the point of not reaching very far, thus lowering the chance of infecting the other person. It's like putting your hand or a piece of cloth in front of a water hose. Water will still come out, but won't reach very far.
Also, it's a myth that mask mesh should be finer than the size of the virus. Even a coarser mask mesh can contain the virus, because it tends to stick to the threads of the mesh (even more so, if it's multi-layered), thus not easily reaching the other side, if at all.
As for vax vs. antivax, I think we're all on the same side, it's wrong to fight each other as if one is the enemy of the other. We're all trying to fight this as best we can, some trust the vaccines, others don't. But fighting each other is bad for both, and may even benefit the real enemies in all this.