Do you wear mask all the time in office?
People seems to have divided opinions about wearing mask inside the office. Sometimes I feel like maybe mask is not necessary if Im just inside the office because I know my colleague well and they all seem to look covid free plus majority of them dont wear masks. But there's also a part of me wanting to feel safe and be sure that I wont get the virus by wearing the mask anyway. What do you guys do when you are in office?
Do whatever you are more comfortable with. Better for everyone to wear, but that can get uncomfortable.
Try to keep your distance when speaking to people.
See if you can agree with everyone who works in the same room as you.
Dan, Don't confuse the innocent souls here .....
Aerosols can penetrate masks. It won't protect you from catching a virus. A virus is pretty small at about 20 to 100 nanometer.
Wear it for a few weeks more , please ...........
My opinion is that masks should be worn at all times if you’re working in office with colleagues.
It's advisable to wear a mask particularly indoors because you and your colleagues are breathing the same air which contains what you exhale or project into the air through your speech.
Certainly, the surest way to project droplets into the air is through coughing or sneezing, but simple speech can also release viruses into the air. In one of the cases of mass infection with COVID-19 was discovered that a sick person sang in a choir and through the air exhaled through singing for his colleagues infected (singing can emanate droplets into the air even more than speech).
Coming back to the office environment, because it's a closed space where you and your colleagues are breathing the same air for a significant number of hours a day, the risks of getting infected are higher. Even if your colleagues seem to be fine. They could be asymptomatic.
So I would suggest wearing a mask at all times, especially at the office. It will not only protect your colleagues in case you carry the disease without knowing but by filtering what you inhale, it will protect you as well from infection if somebody else is sick.
The mask is NOT protecting you! It is protecting others from what you spill into the air by sneezing or coughing. If you wear a mask you show responsibility for OTHERS!