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[–] AngryInVirginia ago 

The CDC was against it because they royally fucked up. We had consumed our emergency stockpile of masks under Obama, allowed ourselves to become dependent upon foreign production of a vital healthcare product, and furthermore let Chinese immigrants purchase all of the public supply of respirators and ship them to China. That is why the CDC was not recommending masks and it is also why people are relying on homemade masks instead of proper respirators.

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[–] RealBiggly ago 

the environment

That is not the same thing as inside your mask (or up your ass).

If your employer is recommending a basic surgical mask to protect YOU from a virus then they are misinformed. For that you need an N95 or better.

(fun fact, an N95 blocks tiny particles and larger particles but only 95% of the medium particles, and does so by magnetism basically)