For corn sake... no one has said REAL (N95/respirator) masks do not offer protection.
The crappy thing is that the N95 has a little flapper thing that cuts down on your rebreating of CO2. That’s cool, it lets you wear the thing longer. But, guess what.. its spewing a jet of your breath on everyone around you. Huh.. I thought that was the point of the darn things.
The cloth masks are worse, they clog and your breath goes around the sides, and meanwhile, you are rebreathing your own CO2 and concentrating virus particles all along.
A friend who was in Europe on an extended trip when all this started came back to the US a couple weeks ago. She said the airline wouldn’t let you wear an N95, that people that had one were given a surgical mask.
There are actually controlled studies (i.e., real control groups under controlled conditions) which show there is not statistically significant improvement in infection rates with N95 masks for respiratory viruses. Government stooges and media simply choose to ignore them.
‘no one has said REAL (N95/respirator) masks do not offer protection.’
fwiw, I say it...
Sure they do. They say the virus is too small to be removed by the mask. They say the N95 (and HEPA) are only good down to 0.3 microns. You try to explain. You provide links to documents. They call you a troll and not doing your homework.