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I'm still amazed everyone isn't outraged that the best we can do in this pandemic is wear cloth masks created by our local quilting clubs.

• duxup 6y ago
  As far as random every day folks out and about, are cloth masks vs N95 a huge difference as far as the overall outcome?
  • dcchambers 6y ago
    IANAD but as I understand it - if everyone is wearing cloth masks correctly, you're very well protected as cloth masks prevent droplets containing the virus from entering the air. But if someone without a mask coughs, breaths, sings etc and has the virus, those virus-laden microscopic droplets enter the air and your normal cloth mask won't do much of anything to help keep you protected from them. An N95 will filter out some/most of those microscopic droplets before you inhale them. TL;DR - your cloth mask mostly helps protect other people, while an N95 mask helps protect you.
    • duxup 6y ago
      Got it. That makes sense. When we get a lot more science out of this COVID event in like ... a few years, it will be really interesting.
    • ghaff 6y ago
      It's probably all a matter of degree but, yes, likely something like that if masks are properly fitted and used. That said, at least where I live in a very blue state, people are quite good--I haven't seen any exceptions--about wearing masks indoors and (mostly) covering mouth and nose. But all that talk early on about not touching face and mask etc.? Pretty much everyone pops a mask on their face as they go to enter a building and take it off as they leave. I'm skeptical most people would use N95 masks even if they were available for free.
• driverdan 6y ago
  What are you talking about? Commercially produced cloth and disposable masks are available all over the place.