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[–] toasterleavins ago 

An individual virus does not come out of your mouth. it comes out in large droplets with thousands of viruses and some phlegm. Ever cough into your hand? That's what the mask is catching.

A Cloth mask catches that, so others don't walk through your cloud of coughed-up mouth-spritzer. An 95 protects you. The pore size is irrelevant - it actually filters an individual virus too. It's statically charged (as in rub a balloon on a cat - it sticks to the cat). The virus gets stuck to the mask via electromagnetism, not by getting filtered by the pores.

Save my money you say? You can use the same N95 forever. I have 3 and rotate them. After 3 days the virus is dead - no need to disinfect the mask. I had them left over from fixing a hole in my drywall. A pack of 5 was $5 at home depot. You're a moron.

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[–] toasterleavins ago  (edited ago)

you keep completely missing the point. if everyone wore a cloth mask or surgical mask, literally no one would need to wear an N95, which is hard to breathe in. in order for the herd to be protected, you only need to be about 60% effective. It's literally how every vaccine works.

I am against government mandates on masks - a government does not have authority to tell people what to wear. In fact, the fact that it's illegal to go out in public nude is overstepping its authority.

Masks are not about politics. It's about complete idiots like yourself looking at a study that says "cloth masks are not effective when everyone's not wearing them" and proclaiming "cloth masks don't work." It's about idiots like you reading Cancer Epidemiologist says masks are ineffective, and stating "Epidemiologists" say masks are ineffective. A Software Engineer and a Locomotive Engineer walk into a bar. You walk over to the guy who wrote your iphone fart app and ask him to design your train. Then I point my finger at you and laugh at the idiot.