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  1. Jun 2020
    1. CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.

      It sounds like it's recommended because a significant portion of people with coronavirus are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic, and the virus can spread through speaking, coughing or sneezing.

    1. we wear cloth face masks because they protect other people from getting COVID-19 from us, in case we have it and don’t know.

      There's no "proof" that these work, but there's a hope that it helps along with hand washing and a distance of six feet.