Exactly. Microns. Fabric masks don't filter at the micron level. The other thing about mask mandates is, they're junk. Garbage.
Because all they mandate is A mask. None of them, not one that I've seen, mandates a minimum level of mask. Not one. A cotton bandana? That meets a mask mandate. But it's useless.
Which means that the mask mandates are useless. They don't do anything. They have zero impact on health outcomes. They are compulsory obedience signaling.
And that is all they are. That's all they have ever been. "Are you doing as you're told, citizen?"
No. Furthermore, fuck you. Furthermore, show me your face and yell at me for refusing to obey -- so I can rebar redecorate that fucking face for you.
This country was literally fucking founded on disobedience, and any arrogant, moralizing nanny-minded cocksucker who needs a remedial history lesson need only get in my face to receive one.
Let me reiterate that initial point, because once you understand that initial point, I think you'll find it very difficult to continue to insist on mask-wearing: Neither the CDC nor any state has a minimum protection level for masks stated in their mask mandates. I'd actually comply if any of them said, "Okay, you must wear at least an N-95 rated mask." Or, "You must wear at least an OSHA leve III rated mask."
Nope. None of them says anything like that. In an actual mask mandate -- like, for example, a work site with hazardous materials, right? Like, airborne sawdust? OSHA mandates a minimum level of protective equipment.
Not so with this shit. Which means that this shit is 100% un-fucking-serious. It's just virtue signaling. If it was serious, it would have actual minimal protection levels to it. And it doesn't.