Because in all of human history, before you and your buddies’ pet disease came along, we didn’t know anything about what masks do or don’t do?
It’s only been more recently than March 2nd of this year that we have gained any knowledge whatsoever of the properties of masks covering the human breathing apparatus?
Mankind has figured out space travel, microbiology, neurosurgery, quantum physics, internal combustion engines, and built the Taj Mahal. But masks were a mystery until after March 2, 2020?
Got it.
And the “stockpiling” argument doesn’t hold water. Now they’re saying anything from your t-shirt to grandma’s tablecloth will save you from the deadliest disease in history. Why wasn’t grandma’s tablecloth okay back in March? Could it be because they didn’t quite have their “Gameplan to Destroy America and Donald Trump” fully figured out yet?
Don’t stop believin’!
Here are the fibers tested for their ability to filter the virus:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
Yes, quilter’s cotton makes a pretty good mask material.