Since COVID is really popping again, I’m going back to masking. I would wear KN95/N95s but those stink after a while and you can’t wash it. Cloth masks aren’t as effective but has to be better than nothing, right?
Is there any special type of mask which can be reused and washed while having ok protection against COVID?
all the reddit nerds are saying “Cloth masks offer zero protection .” in the most smarmy annoying way possible.
shut up
im not getting a comically oversized respirator.
The N95s are effective, and not a giant respirator, but obviously not reusable.
If you are adamant in only using cloth masks, I can offer an alternative of sugar pills with the special power of repelling COVID if you take them while chanting “Begone COVID, COVID away!”. Other placebos are available upon request.
The advice to wear cloth masks early on in the pandemic was based on a soon to be outdated understanding of how Covid and other respiratory diseases spread. Most health authorities have still not fully caught up, wallowing in outdated science based on a misunderstanding of research describing the spread of tuberculosis.
Of course there is also the propaganda push to not accept the most recent science because no one wants to deal with Covid. Surgical and cloth masks are “better than nothing,” but it has become clear that the advice to wear those two types specifically early in the pandemic could never have combatted Covid to any effective degree.