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In article <D27Dv3.FHH@world.std.com>, jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
wrote:

-> I'm told that in Japan when people have a cold or the flu and go out in
-> public they wear gauze surgical masks and white gloves.
-> Can anyone confirm this?
I've seen people wearing the gauze masks in Japan - didn't notice the gloves.
I'd guess about one person in fifty, not 20%.

-> Also, is the gauze mask to prevent others from
-> contracting your cold/flu or to protect oneself
It's to prevent spreading rather than to protect yourself.  I remember
being in a restaurant where an ~8 year old boy with the sniffles was
repeatedly reminded by his mother to put his mask back on.

There's a woman I occasionally see in Berkely who has always been fully
clad in heavy clothing, gauze mask, gloves, and, I believe, goggles.
Even in warm weather.  In her case I think it's personal protection,
real or imagined.