How Often Should I Wash My Mask? And More Of Your Questions About Face Masks

Curious City

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

From office use to wearing them outdoors, we clear up some of your lingering confusions about face masks.

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0:00.0	The CDC is advising the use of non-medical cloth face covering.
0:05.9	We need a national masking mandate.
0:09.2	Face coverings are required in public spaces.
0:12.1	This morning, face mask controversy after this outburst caught on camera in a Los Angeles grocery store.
0:17.7	Anyone harassing me to wear masks?
0:20.5	You guys are violating federal law.
0:22.9	So what can you do right now?
0:25.3	This is voluntary.
0:27.1	Wear a face covering when you leave your house.
0:31.8	I don't think I'm going to be doing it.
0:34.4	Hey, it's Curious City Editor, Alexander Solomon.
0:38.1	You've probably had to wear a mask recently.
0:40.7	Here in Illinois, it's required any time we're in public and can't social distance.
0:46.7	You might have a lot of feelings about this.
0:48.5	I, for one, get very frustrated when I see people not wearing masks.
0:53.4	I'm actually wearing one right now, and it's not that hard.
0:57.7	And whatever feelings you might have, science is science.
1:03.6	In this month, we've seen a rise in COVID cases here and across the nation.
1:09.2	But the head of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield,
1:11.6	says we can stop the spread of the virus by doing one simple thing.
1:15.6	If all of us would put on a face cover right now for the next four weeks,
1:18.6	six weeks that we could drive this epidemic to the ground.
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