(Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) Getty ImagesAsking people to wear masks during this ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has unmasked a lot of ugliness in society. Vicky Forster has already covered and debunked for Forbes claims that wearing masks will affect your immune system or give you carbon dioxide poisoning. If there were enough N95 masks to go around, non-health workers wearing the masks would have been less of problem. Finally, it has always been emphasized that wearing masks that aren’t certified as N95 will not really protect you that much. The virus can still get through material that is too porous and doesn’t have all the built-in protections that real N95 masks have, which I have detailed for Forbes.

Source: Forbes May 25, 2020 17:06 UTC