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On their website I couldn’t find any statement about their effectiveness, nor any certification.
You're being sarcastic, right? If not, that's the entire point. These are designed to fail any tests but cursory visual inspection.
I live somewhere with mild winters so the schools don't have any hallways (the classrooms just open to the outside). This meant that kids could at least get a break from masking between classes. However, after coming back from winter break, the schools started mandating masks outside as well as in, and including during PE class. As you can imagine, my asthmatic daughter was not pleased.
I’ve found N95 masks to be far more breathable than the normal paper masks, and definitely more breathable than cloth masks.
For example, in the dorm there is a common area with a piano. Because of COVID, playing that piano is banned. Even if there was a reasonable danger of contracting COVID from a piano, there are also mental health benefits to playing music. It doesn't feel like the piano ban is in the best interests of the people who live there and I don't think the people who set the rules care because they can't measure that. They can only measure infections.
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You're being sarcastic, right? If not, that's the entire point. These are designed to fail any tests but cursory visual inspection.
At first I thought that the website was sarcastic. But they are unironically selling those “unmasks” without making it clear that they are as useful as a fishnet mask.
Disclaimer
The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including COVID-19/Coronavirus. Unmasks are intended for general public use only. They are non-sterile and are not intended for use in any clinical or surgical setting or where exposure to bodily or hazardous fluids may be expected, where the risk of exposure through inhalation is high, or near intense heat or flammable gas. Unmasks are not surgical masks, personal protective equipment, or filtering respirators (such as N95 masks).
In a way it's reassuring that people of all political stripes can at least come together on one point: that the CDC has been asleep at the wheel during most of this pandemic. Hopefully at some point there will be a discussion about how to reform the body to be much more proactive.
The WHO and their fight against the idea that COVID is airborne is even more confusing to me. It felt like they didn't even want the idea discussed.
I'm willing to be persuaded by evidence, but (for me) any piece that fails to address such an obvious counterpoint immediately loses a great deal of credibility.
In a way it's reassuring that people of all political stripes can at least come together on one point: that the CDC has been asleep at the wheel during most of this pandemic. Hopefully at some point there will be a discussion about how to reform the body to be much more proactive.
I have a mostly positive opinion on the CDC and I wonder if some of the problems are a result of political influence? The WHO and their fight against the idea that COVID is airborne is even more confusing to me. It felt like they didn't even want the idea discussed.
That's not something that is indicative of good leadership, even if supposedly done for benevolent reasons.