So, if the next recommendation is that if you go out you must wear galoshes, a leather pantsuit, and hold a can of Lysol in front of you while doing the Texas two-step, will you do it just because you're being told to? 
If you sneeze or cough and don’t have a mask, you can infect things around, or you cough into your hand and then touch something...the person who comes by 5 minutes later touches what you touched, touches their nose or eye and the virus can be transmitted.
You never came within 6 feet of each other, never saw each other.
The mask is not to protect you, it’s to protect others from you.
The goggles are to keep you from touching your eyes...glasses wearers already have that as a reminder.
Folks, I understand. I understand that the story changes every ten minutes. As I said earlier, I personally am not near people, I have heard not a single person cough or sneeze anywhere outside at least not where I've been, and I don't touch anything with my bare hands - I have two large paper towels with me to pick things up with. You cannot catch this from breathing air. For you to get droplets anywhere on your person you have to be within six feet of someone AND they have to cough and/or sneeze and/or both in your direction. The droplets dissipate within a few minutes. If people want to wear masks then they should wear masks. And if they don't, and they are taking the suggested precautions, then no one should look askance at them. It has simply become impossible to know what's real, what's conjecture, what's supposition and that is because every day it's a new thing. A week ago, they said masks did no good. Now they're recommending them. Next week it'll be some other story. Everyone just needs to stay in and when they're out stay away from others. This, too, shall pass.
I hope your mom feels better. If she has her sense of smell and taste, she doesn't have this - they say those two senses go instantly.
