Randy, I am not sure what countries in Asia who use face masks a lot do about waste. If that is the way we are going, and I have no problem with face masks, then we have to put an infrastructure in place to supply and dispose of them. Without the infrastructure in place discarded masks will make the spread of the infection increase versus not using them.
In addition the load of the virus you get seems to impact how serious the infection is, mass from infected people will be heavily loaded with the virus.