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Here's a Simple Thing Every Business Leader Should Do to Fight the Coronavirus
Apr 02, 2020 1 min, 47 secs
There's now compelling evidence that the United States could meaningfully slow the spread of the coronavirus if all of us, whether healthy or sick, started wearing face masks in public.

Until this week, the official word from the Centers for Disease Control and most research organizations was that masks should only be worn by health care professionals (and supplies should be saved for them). The argument was that lay people didn't know how to wear masks properly, that disposable masks needed to be replaced frequently, and that they are more protection for the people around you than they are for you. That last thing is true, but it's a really good reason to start wearing a mask because none of us can ever know whether or when we might be a coronavirus carrier. Not only does the virus incubate for up to two weeks without causing symptoms, research now tells us that one in four people infected with it never have symptoms at all. .

But there's a problem with wearing a face mask, particularly outside of Asia, where it became common practice during the SARS epidemic and where many people still wore them even before Covid-19. That problem is embarassment. Today, if you wear a mask in public in America, you may worry that people will think you are a) already sick; b) paranoid; or c) paranoid and hoarding masks, which is a very bad thing to do.

If you're a business owner or business leader, if you have employees, or a popular blog, if you're a consultant or speaker, or you have a healthy social media following -- or even a lot of friends who listen to your advice -- you have the power to save lives by getting the word out that wearing a mask isn't embarassing or paranoid or a sign of sickness, but simply a very smart thing to do.

And even if everyone is working remotely, you can get the word out and encourage people to wear masks when they go out, and you can acknowledge people who show up to video meetings with masks on.

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