After contracting COVID-19 yourself, has your opinion changed on the importance of mask

wearing?

No, because I was okay with the masks.

I was good with it, but I've heard many different stories on masks.

During last week's Town Hall event, President Trump offered this confusing message about whether

or not he promotes wearing masks.

Look, you have on the masks, you have two stories.

You have a story where they want, a story where they don't want.

I'm not quite sure what that even means.

But this weekend, Twitter had to remove a tweet from Dr. Atlas, a White House coronavirus

task force member.

He had written a series of misleading claims undermining the effectiveness of masks.

It's worth pointing out, the science is now clear.

Because people can spread this virus, without having had any symptoms themselves, wearing

a mask is one of the best ways to reduce that spread.

If you want to put numbers behind it, a study showed when you wear a mask, it decreases

transmission about six fold.

It's not perfect, but six fold can go a long way in the middle of a pandemic.

But that message keeps getting disrupted by a whole lot of noise, not just from the federal

government, but from state officials, local politicians, and of course on social media.

Looking at where you live and who you're listening to, you could be hearing wildly different

and often incorrect views on the importance of masks.

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