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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

This sounds like old information from early in the pandemic. COVID is airborne. The primary method of transmission is breathing it in. And all masks help, N95 just help the most.

I do agree that thinking you're bulletproof with a cloth mask is not a good idea, but this is all straying from the original falsehood. Masks work, both for the wearer and those around them. The better the mask, the better the protection. Though personally I find that N95s breath a lot easier than cloth masks and since they can be reused aren't much more expensive, so I'd encourage anyone with a cloth mask to just switch to them.