I find the use of these masks to be uncomfortable and unsanitary. I’ll wear them where I am required, but I am not stupid enough to believe that they do any good. But then, I was never stupid enough to fall for the whole #CoroanHoax2020 in the first place. Unlike far too many others, I was smart enough to see, right from the beginning, how a common cold/flu outbreak was being hyperbolized and weaponized for malevolent political purposes, and I was never fooled by any of it.
Very shortly after this whole nonsense began, as we were being told to wear masks, I put a genuine 3M™ N95 mask under my microscope. From the pictures that I took of it, I created this visualization.
This was at a relatively low-power configuration of my microscope. Gaps can clearly be seen going all the way through the mask, about fifty microns wide. (For reference, a micron is a millionth of a meter, 1⁄1000 of a millimeter, 1⁄25400 of an inch.) Even in its most powerful configuration, my microscope is not capable of resolving something as small as a virus. You need something more exotic, such as an electronic microscope, to see something that small.
Anyway, to believe that a mask with 50-micron gaps is any impediment at all to the passage of a 0.05- to 0.2-micron virus is like believing that a standard 2″ chain link fence can stop mosquitoes.
And most of the masks that people are foolishly wearing under the delusion that it protects anyone from any virus, are not N95 masks, not anything even close to being as effective as an N95 would be.