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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 fro
by 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 agoGot 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 agoIt'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.