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No. I’m saying that you cannot look below the mask around the nose to see whether there are gaps. The outer cloth is not an accurate indicator. The too-tight n

• dpark 5y ago
  > The outer cloth is not an accurate indicator. Ah, I see what you mean. I’m pretty sure that I’m not seeing an illusion most of the time, because I’m not looking at the cloth. I’m looking at the very visible skin beneath the gap. But it makes sense that the outer layer of cloth could be misleading. > The too-tight nose piece is probably because that’s how the masks are packaged. You’re probably right. I normally see this on the center-folded masks. This would mean that people are just throwing on the mask without fitting rather than doing an astonishing bad job at attempting to fit, or intentionally fitting to create a space. That’s certainly more understandable.