When no one else around you is wearing a mask, then it’s functionally pointless to wear one. I wear one in the majority of indoor spaces I’m in, but sometimes it just feels like symbolic virtue signaling when everyone else – irrespective of ethnicity – doesn’t have one.
And at this point in time N95 and KN95 masks are widely and cheaply available. You can get 3M name brand N95 masks for as little as $2 a mask (and KN95 for significantly less) and with cycling (put in paper bags, have 5-7 paper bags, cycle through them, one a day to give rest periods of at least 5 days to each mask) you can make these masks last through multiple wears. Probably 5-6 at least if not potentially twice that making the cost per day literally cents per day.
And at that point you’re almost totally protecting yourself given the filtration rate and of course protecting others in the very unlikely chance you get it.
Excuse me for butting in, but there is quite a lot of research about ffp 2and3 masks stating the contrary. And as for those surgical masks they contain cancer causing chemicals.
If somebody is interested a could scrounge up a few links.
When no one else around you is wearing a mask, then it’s functionally pointless to wear one. I wear one in the majority of indoor spaces I’m in, but sometimes it just feels like symbolic virtue signaling when everyone else – irrespective of ethnicity – doesn’t have one.
Not true. Even surgical masks reduce your chances of catching a virus. Don’t spread this misinformation. You are safer covering your face.
And at this point in time N95 and KN95 masks are widely and cheaply available. You can get 3M name brand N95 masks for as little as $2 a mask (and KN95 for significantly less) and with cycling (put in paper bags, have 5-7 paper bags, cycle through them, one a day to give rest periods of at least 5 days to each mask) you can make these masks last through multiple wears. Probably 5-6 at least if not potentially twice that making the cost per day literally cents per day.
And at that point you’re almost totally protecting yourself given the filtration rate and of course protecting others in the very unlikely chance you get it.
Excuse me for butting in, but there is quite a lot of research about ffp 2and3 masks stating the contrary. And as for those surgical masks they contain cancer causing chemicals. If somebody is interested a could scrounge up a few links.
I don’t excuse you. Go away and don’t spread misinformation that kills people.