[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“It’s a message coordinated on memes and kind of flashy discussion points that are not based in reality,” Kindrachuk said of the pushback against masks.“Masks ultimately will help prevent a certain amount of the virus from being transmitted, in particular from those people that either are asymptomatically infected or in the presymptomatic stages of an infection when we know they can transmit, but they don’t notice or have any obvious overt symptoms.”Manitoba has not made masks mandatory in public, while most major municipalities in Ontario and Quebec have.