If you don’t have a mask and someone coughs on you verses if you do have a mask and someone coughs on you, it is pretty obvious having a mask offers some sort of barrier

Reminds me of the reasoning by some on not having seat belts in school busses

They school districts were pushing that it was actually more dangerous with seat belts. It was nonsense. They used that bullshit because they didn’t want to retrofit, because it would cost extra money

But, the mask protects others from the wearer, more than the other way around.
It's intuitively contradictory to suggest masks do nothing to protect the wearer.
But, catching coughs and wheezes with something increasing outward pressure drop would clearly protect others more.
Safety professionals would tell us that any degree of safety is better than none. The mask is a degree of safety.
There can be fair differences as to the quantifiable degree of safety. But, it's not zero.

as your body has time to build up a response before the virus numbers get out of control in your body.

https://medium.com/gado-images-insights/face-masks-may-be-necessary-and-sufficient-to-stop-covid-19-f4f5a295deb

Link, please?

... but I didn't find exactly what I found before. I did find a reference to the advice to wear it one or the other way, depending on the health of the wearer, but it was being debunked. The top three hits I got said wear the blue side out. I'm not sure what to think. One video explained that the white side is absorbent and the blue side repellant. But none of them addressed the notion that surgical masks work better than cloth because they are electrostatic and virus particles stick to them like socks to a blanket in the dryer. I "learned" that from a video some time ago. I assume one side is electrostatic and the other not. Still confusion.

Blue side should be out.

(provided by my employer, btw) says specifically to wear the colored side out.


then again, it also says Made In China.

What you're looking for is medical advice. So why don't you ask a medical professional, rather than rely upon "the top three hits I got" and the DU General Discussion Forum?

it that organizations like WHO and CDC cannot be trusted to tell the real truth. They tell us what is for the "greater good". I can understand why they would do that. But at this point the "cat is out of the bag", and it is working against them.

Thats my story, and im sticking to it.

... makes me not hunch my shoulders to keep the virus particles away.

Please quit spreading misinformation.

I know you SAID you saw it on Google, but 1. Link? and 2. I can find all kinds of misinformation and junk science on Google.