I was happy to greet a new employee today at work, a young kid with a bright future. He wore a mask into the office, I guess it makes sense if you're going to go somewhere new where you don't know the culture.
Anyhow, he was informed the mask was optional, and he promptly took it off. Literally no one in our office wears a mask or social distances.
It's nice, and it's not something I should be appreciating, but here I am.
These are dark times.
I have one of those too and they definitely work just like that. I've had the same sort of experience.
Our cloth masks and even the "medical" masks to almost nothing to nothing. Sure, I suppose it would be a little beneficial for someone to catch their sneeze in the mask but other than that the fit is so bad the air just goes through every gap.
It's bizarre how our culture is so anti-truth that telling people this makes them angry. The masks we wear are only safety blankets.