Letter to the editor: Effectiveness of cloth masks questioned

Earlier this year, a medical sales representative called into a local radio program regarding surgical masks. It was her specialty. She talked about particulates, screening properties and interceptor efficiencies. A clear example of poor filtering was that you shouldn’t be able to smell aromas through it.

Such particulates are much larger than the coronavirus. Asked specifically for a comparison of the protection offered against covid-19 by an over-the-counter mask, she said it would be similar to the protection afforded by a tennis net against a bullet.

In my opinion, science doesn’t support the use of cloth masks, so why are politicians mandating it? I believe they want to control by hysteria. People who refuse to wear masks are evil and trying to kill their fellow citizens.

This is the land of the free. Benjamin Franklin put it best: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Daniel Robinson

West Deer