Wearing masks isn't virtue signalling. It's perfectly reasonable.
People who have flu don't generally feel well enough to get out of bed.
Yes, we'll be wearing masks, because we're not selfish idiots.
www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/health/medical-matters/85902/why-it-would-be-madness-for-us-to-stop-wearing-face-masks-now
Apologies for DM link. That's where one of the Drs I follow on twitter posted her article. Pertinent paragraphs here:
What we know now is that the virus is actually transmitted via tiny airborne particles that, in enclosed spaces, stay in the air, waiting to infect someone else. So not only does a mask prevent airborne particles from being released into the air, a mask also prevents us from inhaling those airborne particles.
Say you’re infected but, like around 50 per cent of people who pass on the virus, have no symptoms, and you’re in an empty carriage on your own. If you take off your mask and spend ten minutes exhaling virus particles before getting off the train, you have filled that carriage with contaminated air and the next person that steps into it is at risk.
And a lot of people are still at risk: Unvaccinated children and teenagers are at risk, people who are unable to have the vaccine are at risk, as are people for whom the vaccine has not been effective.The vaccination programme is great and undoubtedly, the more people who are vaccinated, the fewer cases and the less transmission we will see. But vaccination isn’t 100 per cent effective and we know that vaccinated people can still catch and transmit the virus. So until everyone – including teenagers – has been vaccinated twice, we should all be wearing masks when we’re in enclosed, unventilated spaces. Even those who have been double jabbed.
This virus hasn’t gone away – it’s still killing people every day, and the more people wear masks, the fewer people will die. It really is as simple as that.