[edmcnulty101]

It's not necessarily because masks don't work, medical professionals use them to great success.

Mask usage at the community level does not follow the same strict policies related to mask usage that medical professionals do, like discarding them between operations.

Wearing the same mask over and over every day and removing it when you sit down to eat is a very ineffective policy.

And it's kind of an abuse of power for the government to mandate something with such weak science.

[AnthonBerg]

This is a common misconception. The blame lies squarely on a grand failure of delivery of public health information.

Outside an industrialized hospital sanitization chain, it’s actually fine to reuse a mask – as long as it’s a mask that works against SARS-CoV-2 aerosol to begin with.

I can provide sources.

[gadflyinyoureye]

Please do. From what I've seen the best and science-based answer is that masks don't work. Air filtration does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjLFqESxY0.

As another pointed out in a different sub-thread, N95s work as long as they are fit-tested and worn to spec. If you have facial hair, muss the banding so that it doesn't form a perfect seal, etc., the N95 might help, but is not a solution. This means that people with facial hair will not benefit from N95 neither in the form of protection of self nor others.

We have seen in the US that children are now develop-mentally behind. The US govern said what was normal for 24 month child is now normal for a 30 month child. All for a mask program that never worked.

[edmcnulty101]

This article that you are replying to seems to work to contradict your claim and I've read numerous others that seem to as well.

Would love to see your sources if you have them handy.

[edmcnulty101]

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[LewisVerstappen]

Teachers unions in the US are absurdly powerful unfortunately.

[formerkrogemp]

> Teachers unions in the US are absurdly powerful unfortunately.

I doubt that very much given the spate of laws controlling teachers passed recently, the record low pay, record staffing shortages, and record resignations.