Those of us who are more hirsute tend to be touching our faces often...just to make sure we aren't carrying anything extra in the beard.

Still, I believe that what the CDC was getting at was that there is a certain amount of futility to wearing a mask if you aren't in a high risk area. On the other hand, in my experience, wearing those masks gets pretty doggone nasty after not all that long. If they aren't trapping the humidity from your breath, then they wouldn't be doing much against airborne particles, so they DO end up trapping plenty of humidity, and end up being rather foul.

As for Trump bashing, I don't think he's done anything right or wrong with the virus. Until this weekend, I don't feel there was much to do aside from studying things. Still, he's pretty much scored an own goal on this one when it comes to the stock market, and I do find that pretty amusing. If the president, ANY president, had a lever they could pull that would make the economy better, they'd pull that lever as soon as they got into the office and keep on pulling it throughout their term. There is no such lever. Presidents get too much blame for bad economies and too much credit for good economies. Most just smile, since they know they can't totally drive that bus. What's different about Trump is that he's been claiming credit for the booming stock market. So now....own goal.

Having said that, I felt that the market was overpriced ahead of this drop, and also felt that this was an overreaction. I'm not so sure about that latter statement, though. The measures governments are taking to curtail the virus is certainly going to harm the global economy. If the virus runs its course quickly enough, the harm won't be too great, but it likely will not be all that quick because the global economy was starting to look a bit sickly before the virus.