Ta-da! Now, how hard is this to understand?
The CDC was entirely DERELICT in its duty to educate the American public.
They said ZERO about the proper use of masks.
Even a LITTLE guidance would have been helpful. A 90 nm mask does you no good whatsoever if you have a 5 mm gap between the mask and your face.
Yet we see Joe Average, well meaning and concerned as he may be, get on the bus and yank a mask out of the container and slap it on his face, and then smile like everything's all right now.
COVID was a piss poor performance by the US government and it ought to scare the shit out of anyone who's contemplating the next war.
Cause we're going to LOSE with leadership like that.