1. 76% of Americans want masks to be required in businesses (Wash Post, 5/15/20)

2. 86%+ of the world’s population lives in places that have a nationwide or statewide requirement of masks in public places and/or universal mask usage (130+ countries and 20+ U.S. States)

3. 100+ prominent academic leaders (including two Nobel prize winners) have signed a letter calling for masks to be required in public to slow COVID-19.

4. There are many scientific studies showing the effectiveness of cloth masks at slowing the spread of COVID-19 – both by protecting the people around the wearer and by protecting the wearer themselves (from researchers at Stanford, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Brown, UNC, UCLA, and USF).

5. There are multiple data analyses showing that countries and states that have recommended or required mask usage have had fewer COVID-19 infections and deaths per capita.

6. There are multiple economic studies (done by economists at Yale and Goldman Sachs) showing that a nationwide mask mandate in the U.S. is worth more than a trillion dollars in economic value.

7. ~95% of the world lives in countries where the government and leading disease experts both agree that masks are effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19.