Empirical data supports this. You needed an N95 mask tailored to your face and that was only effective for about 8 hours, at most. You could have never pulled it off either for as much as a sip of water, a sneeze, or to eat. Any other mask besides that didn’t protect you. It was a fear-based reaction that became policy and a control-measure

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