If anything more people are outside in the summer, therefore less chance of infecting others
Like wearing a condom, wearing a mask is just common sense
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No, not necessarily.
That depends on what they're doing outside relative to being at home.
A person living alone, for example, is probably safer at home alone than out at a crowded bar, beach or nightclub.
People who were at home for weeks or months with their families during the lockdown would have been safer there when the lockdown ended relative to going outside.
"One important reason for population-wide facial masking became apparent in March, when reports started to circulate describing the high rates of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding from the noses and mouths of patients who were presymptomatic or asymptomatic — shedding rates equivalent to those among symptomatic patients.1 Universal facial masking seemed to be a possible way to prevent transmission from asymptomatic infected people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) therefore recommended on April 3 that the public wear cloth face coverings in areas with high rates of community transmission — a recommendation that has been unevenly followed across the United States.
"Past evidence related to other respiratory viruses indicates that facial masking can also protect the wearer from becoming infected, by blocking viral particles from entering the nose and mouth.2 Epidemiologic investigations conducted around the world — especially in Asian countries that became accustomed to population-wide masking during the 2003 SARS pandemic — have suggested that there is a strong relationship between public masking and pandemic control. Recent data from Boston demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 infections decreased among health care workers after universal masking was implemented in municipal hospitals in late March.
New England Journal of Medicine.
"Past evidence related to other respiratory viruses indicates that facial masking can also protect the wearer from becoming infected, by blocking viral particles from entering the nose and mouth.2 Epidemiologic investigations conducted around the world — especially in Asian countries that became accustomed to population-wide masking during the 2003 SARS pandemic — have suggested that there is a strong relationship between public masking and pandemic control. Recent data from Boston demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 infections decreased among health care workers after universal masking was implemented in municipal hospitals in late March.
New England Journal of Medicine.
315 new cases in Ontario today. Masks are working great 
And here's what your CDC experts were saying a couple of months ago
Where does that indicate it was "a couple of months ago"?
"...this is the process intelligent people follow.
When there is new information, or the understanding of a situation evolves, intelligent people modify their opinions and advice. AKA "change their minds".
Others who are threatened by their own fear and insecurity that they may be wrong, doggedly stick to their original position and find excuses to justify
their inability to learn from new information.
Unfortunately ignorant, loud and irrational people can not understand or interpret these facts properly because they are blinded by their own selfish wants/gains or guided by their political agenda."
"CDC Director: Masks Are 'The Most Important, Powerful Public Health Tool We Have'
"Robert Redfield speculated that masks may even be more effective than a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for people who don't respond to a vaccine.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US again urged people to wear face masks as much as possible and stressed their effectiveness in containing the spread of the coronavirus, in contrast to President Donald Trump’s lax attitude toward masks.
“These face masks are the most important, powerful public health tool we have, and I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face coverings. I have said if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we would bring this pandemic under control,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “We have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense.”
www.huffingtonpost.in
"Robert Redfield speculated that masks may even be more effective than a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for people who don't respond to a vaccine.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US again urged people to wear face masks as much as possible and stressed their effectiveness in containing the spread of the coronavirus, in contrast to President Donald Trump’s lax attitude toward masks.
“These face masks are the most important, powerful public health tool we have, and I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face coverings. I have said if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we would bring this pandemic under control,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “We have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense.”
CDC Director: Masks Are 'The Most Important, Powerful Public Health Tool We Have'
Robert Redfield speculated that masks may even be more effective than a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for people who don't respond to a vaccine.
I believe this one is related to some of the anti maskers here
www.cnn.com
beware of what you sew, wear a mask or wear a ventilator, the choice is yours.
An Idaho pastor skeptical of masks lands in the ICU for Covid-19
A pastor in Idaho who called himself a "no-masker" during a service and repeatedly questioned the veracity of coronavirus case reporting is in the ICU after contracting Covid-19.
www.cnn.com
beware of what you sew, wear a mask or wear a ventilator, the choice is yours.
"Fauci to Trump: Everyone Should Wear Masks, I’m So Tired of Saying This
The nation’s top infectious disease expert quickly set the record straight after Trump suggested he shares in his skepticism about coronavirus precautions: “Wear a mask.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...uld-wear-masks
The nation’s top infectious disease expert quickly set the record straight after Trump suggested he shares in his skepticism about coronavirus precautions: “Wear a mask.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...uld-wear-masks
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Excellent article full of the latest cutting edge scientific evidence for mask wearing:
www.nature.com
Face masks: what the data say
The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?
www.nature.com
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Thanks but reading about all those BB services, either wearing a condom is not common sense to some or common sense is not so common. What does it say about wearing a mask when required?
How is this for social distancing, you guys?? 
It is true that just "some" people aren't hearing the "common sense" in their big head when they are only listening to their little head.
"The online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies says 83 per cent of respondents feel governments should order people to wear a mask in all indoor public spaces."
Majority of Canadians say wearing a mask during coronavirus pandemic is a civic duty: poll - National | Globalnews.ca
A new survey suggests the recent rise in new COVID-19 cases across Canada comes with a similar increase in support for the mandatory wearing of masks in public places.
globalnews.ca
"Coronavirus Cases Went Down 75 Percent in Arizona After They Required Masks and Closed Bars":
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people.com
Coronavirus Cases Went Down 75 Percent in Arizona After They Required Masks and Closed Bars
Local governments enacted mask mandates after cases spiked 151 percent in June
Coronavirus went up 300% in Ontario after masks became mandatory"Coronavirus Cases Went Down 75 Percent in Arizona After They Required Masks and Closed Bars":
Coronavirus Cases Went Down 75 Percent in Arizona After They Required Masks and Closed Bars
Local governments enacted mask mandates after cases spiked 151 percent in June
Dataset - Ontario Data Catalogue
