

They do not protect you or others from the China or any other virus, which passes through any pad of cloth or plasticised paper like a gnat through an open door. Tiny fibres of plasticised paper disintegrating from a sodden mask risk being inhaled to lodge in lung tissue. Oxygen plays a crucial role in your health especially if you have some other illness, or in the case of a growing child.

Masks force wearers to rebreathe their own CO2 plus bacteria, basically a noxious gas – bad for the respiratory tract, bad for facial skin, bad for dental health, bad for blood oxygen. Only hospital-grade washing machines can do that. Your washing machine will not be able to sanitise them entirely. Unless changed very frequently throughout the day, masks harbour 80-plus different bacteria and at least 4 different types of fungal colonies. Yes, quite amusing no doubt, but remember:
