I specifically said the majority of the masks I saw in January were N95. Your blanket statement that ‘masks from a hardware store won’t do anything against a virus except make you feel safe’ was wrong. No amount of subsequent responses by you will change that fact.
sorry your reading comprehension is lacking.
This is what I said:
quote “*sigh* there are DIFFERENT kinds of masks
The ones you typically see at the hardware store WONT DO ANYTHING against a virus but make you “feel” safer.
The special masks they are talking about are the ones that are needed and are in short supply.”
notice the word typically referring to type of masks you typically see at the hardware store AKA “dust masks”.
Yes, they also sell the N95 masks, but I was trying to say that the government is NOT lying, and that there is no inconsistency. Only an N95 mask will help, those dust masks that make up the majority of the masks on the shelf at the hardware store, wont do squat.