re: If a mask won't protect you from wildfire smoke

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less virus in your body means you’ll recover faster.

You need to publish that. It will be of great interest in the medical community.

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He’s correct, actually.

Viral exposure is no different than exposure to any other toxin. The more you’re exposed to, the higher the health risk.

The role of the mask is debatable , obviously. But if a respiratory virus requires respiration to transmit (it does), then any attenuation of respiration would also attenuate transmission.

If air doesn’t flow freely, it can’t carry virus nearly as far and wide.