Despite the data in the scientific paper regarding masks being quite clear that cloth masks show little effectiveness (and always within the margin of error of no effectiveness) the conclusions almost always say "cloth masks work". That's why we have the odd situation that pro and anti-mask articles will cite the exact same study, the latter citing the actual data and the former citing the politicized conclusion.
There's one graph that appears in an influential mask study (and about a million meta analysis "studies") that shows the effectiveness of 100% of people wearing a cloth masks as being roughly equal to 5% of people wearing an N95 mask, but it's not zero so to pro-mask activists that counts as "working."
What’s even funnier is the one person double masked with an N-95 is clearly not form fit and has gaps, which completely nullifies the use. I was trained heavily on proper ppe in the military, spent too much time in gas chambers that would leave you vomiting and nauseous from having the tiniest leak in your scba. The efficacy of mask studies are a joke just off the fact I have never seen anyone in public with a form fitted n-95, anecdotal I know, but I know the studies don’t cover it.
Despite the data in the scientific paper regarding masks being quite clear that cloth masks show little effectiveness (and always within the margin of error of no effectiveness) the conclusions almost always say "cloth masks work". That's why we have the odd situation that pro and anti-mask articles will cite the exact same study, the latter citing the actual data and the former citing the politicized conclusion.
There's one graph that appears in an influential mask study (and about a million meta analysis "studies") that shows the effectiveness of 100% of people wearing a cloth masks as being roughly equal to 5% of people wearing an N95 mask, but it's not zero so to pro-mask activists that counts as "working."
What’s even funnier is the one person double masked with an N-95 is clearly not form fit and has gaps, which completely nullifies the use. I was trained heavily on proper ppe in the military, spent too much time in gas chambers that would leave you vomiting and nauseous from having the tiniest leak in your scba. The efficacy of mask studies are a joke just off the fact I have never seen anyone in public with a form fitted n-95, anecdotal I know, but I know the studies don’t cover it.
There actually is a study where they put 3mm gaps in the N95 and it dropped the effectiveness to nearly as bad as cloth.