Whereas cloth face coverings, or nonmedical masks, serve as a barrier to SARS–CoV–2-carrying droplets, helping to prevent the spread of COVID–19 and save lives; Whereas a substantial portion of people infected with SARS–CoV–2 are asymptomatic or presymptomatic and can transmit the virus to others when they do not know they are infected; Whereas research conducted long before the COVID–19 pandemic has shown the utility of wearing masks in providing protection against the transmission of respiratory infections; Whereas various types of cloth masks, including masks made of cotton, gauze, and other fabrics, reduced infection rates among health care workers and others during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and the Manchurian plague of 1920 through 1921, and were used by health care workers and others to protect against tuberculosis in the 1930s and 1940s; Whereas a model projection of COVID–19 deaths by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington showed if 95 percent of people in the United States wore a mask in public spaces, nearly 34,000 fewer people would die from the disease; Whereas, on April 3, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended all individuals two years of age and older and medically able to wear a mask, wear nonmedical, cloth masks in public settings and when around people who don’t live in their household; Whereas a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from May 11 through May 13, 2020, found that 76 percent of adults support mask-wearing outside of the home; Whereas a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 17, 2020, found no secondary cases of COVID–19 in 139 mask-wearing clients of two mask-wearing hair stylists with confirmed cases of COVID–19