[winternett]

HEPA fiters are revolutionary, but they don't quite qualify as new innovation do they?

N95 masks have been around for ages as well. I have ideas of course on how they could be improved, as I am sure many others do, but it gets drowned out daily by all the nonsense of debating whether masks are even effective... We can't deny that politicizing mask effectiveness is in the same distraction bag as flat earth debates, but somehow we all just shrug it off not realizing that it is what clouds real discussion about meaningful innovation.

No one is disparaging the innovation behind mRNA vaccines, that is not a related or accurate talking point, it's a side-track.