Avoid buying face masks
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus.
The disease causes respiratory illness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing. You can protect yourself by washing your hands frequently, avoiding touching your face, and avoiding close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with people who are unwell.
Wearing mask specially N95 is necessary for the Corona affected person, but only if you are a patient. The fit person does not require to wear the mask. The mask is to avoid spreading of the virus from the mouth of the infected person. Hence, if the not infected or fit will buy the mask, the shortage of the supply will lead to mass panic among the patients and people surrounded by them such as family members and domestic help and further the Coronavirus will be spread to the community and lead to mass havoc.
One more reason to not buying the masks in abundance is that all the panic of extra storage is helping just the chemists. The chemist wont ask you twice weather you are infected or you already have the mask before handing over the mask to you. Yes if you can do something then please try and give away those already bought masks to the elders in the neighborhood or the already patients of some disease.
If you are young and does not have any disease or history of any ailment, request you all to please avoid buying mask. If you still want to buy mask for yourself, then buy the one which is commonly used by the doctors or medical staffs. It is cheap and effective. Don't waste money in buying N95 masks.
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