As a physician with direct clinical experience of 40+ years I can say without qualification that the wearing of cloth masks does NOT protect anyone from transmitting or contracting Wuhan Flu.  Furthermore I will tell you that mask wearing degrades my interactions with patients and negatively impacts my ability to dictate reports and communicate with referring physicians. I will not comply with this mandate as it interferes with my ability to deliver the best quality care, and will not hesitate to move my practice, and residence, out of state if necessary to continue in my profession.

Mask wearing is nothing more than a panacea, that at best only allays fears generated by false media narratives. The health risks of mask wearing, however, are real.  Just ask anyone with marginal cardiac function or chronic lung disease.  With all due respect to the alphabet agencies of the federal health bureaucracy, the so called experts have absolutely no clinical expertise  or scientific basis on which to make this recommendation. A governor who calls himself a physician should know this as well as anyone.