Now more than ever, we need to be aware of covering our mouths when we cough. We were all taught at a young age "the vampire cough", when you cough into your elbow. Not only is it just courteous to cover your mouth, these days it's a full blown health hazard if you don't. Some people have even been arrested for coughing on other people deliberately. You don't know what kind of diseases your body is carrying or if you do, that disease might have a low impact on you, but if it gets into someone who is immunocompromized, it might do some serious damage to them. Now with science saying our couch droplets travel more than 6 feet, we all need to more aware about how our coughing will be affecting others.

Yes Amanda. Its very important to not become careless with mask wearing. We have learned that droplets fly much farther than we ever thought. Masks are essential for our health and others we come in contact with. I hope that people are washing the reusable masks often. Coughing into the elbow is a good practice. On another note I see people sneezing without covering the mouth area at all which is not good at all.

The masks are a very good way to help stop the spread of the cough. I still cover my face when i cough in public even though i am wearing a mask, it is a habit. I then have to change my mask right away because i feel a little nasty wearing a mask that i just coughed in, especially if i sneeze haha. 

I think the masks are good too Nora. If everyone would do their part with the pandemic I do believe it would help. The chance of a vaccine soon is great and there are high expectations.

Wearing masks and taking other precautions everyday will help us and others to stay well

Reading this and seeing "short adults" makes me think about all the times that I was on the receiving end of peoples cough droplets. I for some reason thought before reading this though that cough droplets would travel at faster mph then what is stated in this article.

@noracrainiectskin-com Agreed masks are a great protective way for each other. To us masks are so new and so unheard of but in other countries it was always normal to walk down the street and see someone with a mask. They either do this to protect themselves from others. Or others just simply did this because they knew they didn't feel well and didn't want to risk getting someone else sick.

reading things like this is always interesting because it makes sense and it feels like something most people would know but its never something someone would just sit and think about. everyone should always be covering their mouth when they sneeze or cough to reduce the spread of any type of bacteria/germs, even before the pandemic. but i feel like the pandemic really highlighted the importance of it 

@noracrainiectskin-com i cover my mouth too when im wearing the mask out of habit! i always feel like i look silly doing it but then i feel awkward when i forget too