Covid was not the deadliest virus in history and nobody made that claim. It was however contagious enough to create a pandemic and sufficiently deadly to be a big problem.
Those masks don’t protect the weather and are not meant to. If you want to protect yourself you would use a N95 respirator and some kind of face shield to protect from water droplets. But you would obviously not mention that because then this meme would not make sense.
On your second point, the Mayor Clinic states explicitly that masks protect the wearer from getting infected by other people. The NIH says the same, as does the CDC. Besides that, N95 masks were quite difficult to get during the pandemic. I never saw them for sale. The closest I found was KN95, which are made to a more lax standard and difficult for me to breathe through.
Fair enough they seem to give some protection to wearer if you wear it properly, but still way less protection than an N95 respirator. As you said the main reason people wear masks over N95 is because of price and availability.
Covid was not the deadliest virus in history and nobody made that claim. It was however contagious enough to create a pandemic and sufficiently deadly to be a big problem.
Those masks don’t protect the weather and are not meant to. If you want to protect yourself you would use a N95 respirator and some kind of face shield to protect from water droplets. But you would obviously not mention that because then this meme would not make sense.
On your second point, the Mayor Clinic states explicitly that masks protect the wearer from getting infected by other people. The NIH says the same, as does the CDC. Besides that, N95 masks were quite difficult to get during the pandemic. I never saw them for sale. The closest I found was KN95, which are made to a more lax standard and difficult for me to breathe through.
Fair enough they seem to give some protection to wearer if you wear it properly, but still way less protection than an N95 respirator. As you said the main reason people wear masks over N95 is because of price and availability.