So, what's the DU consensus re: Mask, no-mask?

[Jirel]

71. The problem is, it can hurt others.

It's a real tossup. If people can be trusted to BEHAVE THEMSELVES while wearing masks, it can't hurt. However, people have that stupid tendency to treat wearing PPE (usually wrong... badly wrong...) as an invincible shield, and abandon all the other important measures.

Some cases in point that I've seen or been hearing about here locally (on a countywide page) in just the past couple days:
* Two groups at the store (why are you in the grocery store in *groups*?) stopping to talk, taking masks down, and chattering at very close distance to each other. About the only thing that didn't happen was hugs.
* In the local HD bathroom, some nitwit with a mask and gloves went to the bathroom, took them all off, laid them on the shared bathroom counter, did their business, washed hands (pretty minimally), and then put all that gear back on.
* Another lady at the grocery store meat counter, who was short, wasn't being heard well by the deli guy. She pulled the mask down and put her hands and chin right up on the top of the deli counter to talk to him.