The more you practice something, the better you get at it. Assuming people to be 100% noobs at masks for months is a bit pessimistic.
It's easier today to use hand sanitizer with masks than months ago. In my experience anyway.
Most people are not medically skilled or trained. People fidget unconsciously and uncontrolled.
Or maybe it's realistic. Go read some hospital audits of mask wearing or handwashing. Have a look at any of the research showing that even staff who are trained to use it struggle to do it properly.
Not washing your hands properly can be counterproductive. Not being socially distant enough can be counterproductive.
If you're not even arguing against masks, what is your point?
> So...people need to just slap something over their two air exchanging orifices on their faces before leaving the house and contribute to the our greater health.
My point is that if the mask is inefficient it could be counterproductive due to fidgeting. See sibling comment about fleece masks that hopefully makes a better case since you can't agree the slightest that anyone would ever fidget with their mask.
Regardless, I don't agree that it's a banality considering the ECDC lists it as an important caveat when using face masks:
> There is a risk that improper removal of the face mask, handling of a contaminated face mask or an increased tendency to touch the face while wearing a face mask by healthy persons might actually increase the risk of transmission.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COV...
Obviously I read the thread, otherwise I wouldn't have commented on what you wrote in it.
> Regardless, I don't agree that it's a banality considering the ECDC lists it as an important caveat when using face masks
It's a banality when in absolutely every thread on this subject at least one person states the totally obvious that doing something incorrectly could might potentially possibly may be worse than not doing it at all.
You are using that "serious caveat" because it's the go to trope for anti-maskers seeking to pollute absolutely every fucking discussion on this subject.
I asked you to explain why you're posting anti-masker arguments if you are, as you claim, "all for masks" and all you've done is repeat the same anti-mask bullshit.
Next time I won't bother assuming possible good faith on the part of anyone spouting textbook anti-masker noise.
The ECDC guidelines recommend face coverings but still recognise the caveats, but in your eyes they are heretics and anti-maskers for even mentioning it. You appear like a religious fanatic. Very sad to see and it completely kills any serious discussion about the topic.
When you were informed that Scandinavian countries are not taking an anti-mask stance, instead of holding your hands up that your argument was based on something false, you simply carried on making the same anti-mask point by fixating on something else (three sentences from a six page PDF) instead.
Like I said, you are not fooling anyone.
Keep hand sanitizer in your pocket. Whenever you touch the mask, sanitize your hands. Both before you touch (in case you touched a COVID19 infected surface, you don't want to add COVID19 to the mask), and after you touch (in case your mask prevented COVID19 from entering your lungs, you don't want to contaminate other things anymore)
Problem solved. At my work, there's hand-sanitizer everywhere now. I don't even need to reach into my pockets anymore.
Or #2: don't touch your mask. Ever. That's how doctors/nurses do it. The hand-sanitizer crutch is what I do because I'm not as good as a doctor/nurse with my discipline. But I'm training myself to never touch the mask.