You need to wear a face mask whether you have the virus or not, I don’t know who spreads these rubbish rumours about things like ” it’s only for those with the virus”, I wish people would check facts before just posting the same incorrect statements circling social media! Unless you have been tested for the virus and been given the all clear and since the test not had contact with anyone or anything that could pass the virus on to you then you may be carrying it without any symptoms and passing it on to the unsuspecting public by just breathing, wearing a face mask would greatly minimise this.
It’s government who spread the BS about mask simply because both Lab and Tory have let manufacturers over the decades move production to other parts of the World for cheap labour and overheads and now with Germany, France and some other EU countries along with Russia and Turkey banning all exports of mask to other EU member states and the rest of the World you can now see why they bellow from the rooftops that masks aren’t needed as it covers up their incompetences over the years while they were lining their pockets.
Remember this after this is all over and they come begging on your TV for relief of some sort or other because of some local disaster as the UK is one of the most generous in the World in those matters but maybe we need to think about looking after ourselves in times of crises in future when the rest of the World tells you to get knotted and also make the government of the day more accountable to British interests in Briton in future.