When you sneeze, it seems it is an act of your body forcefully ejecting germs or virus from the body. It is said a sneeze screams out at 100 miles an hour. Sneezes, as well as perhaps most coughs, are involuntary. You can't stop them. Something inside the body triggers them. It says, Get out, and throws the germs out with mighty force. It says, Hey-hey, I don't want this in my body! And, it hurls the germs out like a bouncer tossing an unwanted patron violently to the street.
If the body doesn't want them, it might be because they are doing us damage. We can sit around all day thinking our own germs will do us no harm. We can suppose it is only other's germs, and not our own, that are bad. But, what is this? Our bodies are forcefully rejecting these germs?
Yes, those sneezes might not come from rejecting our own germs, but those of others. A germ floats into the air, hits our nasal passage, and the body violently ejects it right back out -- at 100 miles an hour. Surely that is a lot of it. But, maybe it is both the germs of others and those of our own that can prompt a sneeze.
Likewise, germs from others that enter our breathing space might well spark some of our coughing. Maybe, maybe not. But, it does seem at least most of our coughing is not brought on by the germs of others, but by our own condition.
So, what of the face mask? What of sticking a barrier right in front of your mouth and nose? The germs are tossed out, only to be bounced right back in. They exit, only to be inhaled about as quick as they've left.
I do not say we should not be wearing face masks. If the healthy wore them, perhaps it would do them no harm at all. It would seem the masks would surely filter the air they are breathing, stopping many of the germs from entering their air passages. Wearing masks might yet be the right thing to do.
But, we should consider on whether the face mask does have this downside that perhaps previously hasn't been considered.
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