Cushing H.
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thanks for the information. I was actually asking for a reason: viruses versus the immune system response have an interesting relation between the amount of initial "dose" versus the resulting illness. for the most part, if you get exposed to just a few viruses ... your immune system has time to create antibodies before the virus replicates to large numbers ... and you have no or few symptoms (some, like Hepatitis B which I studies are nasty .... one or two viruses and they have a chance to defeat your immune system). The CDC has not been talking about this (though recently with the "double masking" stuff they are **beginning** to), but masks are actually very much like vaccines: the point is NOT to totally avoid illness .... the point is to reduce the illness in severity so that severe illness (and hospitalization) does not occur. vaccines do this by giving the immune system a "head start". masks do this by reducing (but not necessarily eliminating) the exposure to the viruses ... so that you get sick .... but not severely so (I have been telling this to my family for almost the last year). I would say that your precautions in the shop did *exactly* what they were supposed to have done. So .... I am glad and heartened that people are ok and had only mild symptomsWe wore masks except at the break table or at our desks in the back We sanitized everything regularly, and I have 10 squirt bottles of hand sanitizer throughout the store. No one was sick, coughing, sneezing, etc.
