Exactly. Finding the "most effective" mask and mandating it isn't practical anymore. I live in a developing country and there are relatively few antivaxxers her

Exactly. Finding the "most effective" mask and mandating it isn't practical anymore. I live in a developing country and there are relatively few antivaxxers here. Not a lot of people here are against mask mandates either. However, the Omicron variant still caused a huge surge in new cases. N95 is just too expensive. You could already purchase a meal for one person with the cost of an N95 here. What choice would an average person who works less than minimum wage? The approach here should be cultural. Encouraging employees to not go to work when they are sick should be normalized. Labor laws should be revised to include more sick leaves factoring in how prevalent COVID-19 has become. Public spaces should be retrofitted and redesigned to allow for a better ventilation. Controlling what mask people wear and how they wear is just too difficult to implement. Government must shift their focus away from the action of its citizens to the environment the citizens participate in.