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From their website (About/Disclaimer):

_The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including COVID-19/Coronavirus. Unmasks are intended for general public use only. They are non-sterile and are not intended for use in any clinical or surgical setting or where exposure to bodily or hazardous fluids may be expected, where the risk of exposure through inhalation is high, or near intense heat or flammable gas. Unmasks are not surgical masks, personal protective equipment, or filtering respirators (such as N95 masks)._

Basically, it seems like a soft, breathable mask.....but they make no claims that they will significantly reduce your chances of catching Covid from someone nearby. That said, if the only goal is to meet masking requirements in public places, then it "works".

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Read between the lines. They are marketing for people who don't want to wear a mask but have to. These "masks" are designed to do the bare minimum to get you onto an airplane. It's not supposed to protect you.

Surgical masks do the same. They're easy to breathe in, they offer little protection, and you can board an airplane with them. I don't see the point.

These are supposed to easier to breath in. Surgical masks still fog my glasses. Whether the product delivers on those claims, I have no idea.

Surgical masks use static electricity to attract particles, they aren't as good as N95 but still offer protection compared to nothing.

People buying this mask disappoint me. They should at least go full hose:

https://fakemaskworldwide.com/the-offensively-fake-fake-mask...

All of this, down to the disclaimer, also applies to the ubiquitous normal cloth masks, so it's hardly a strike against them.

It’s absolutely a strike against them, considering all of that does not apply to normal cloth masks intentionally.

The makers of this mask deliberately choose to make a product that does not improve collective safety, and that malicious attitude deserves to be jailed, not rewarded.

No, it absolutely applies to normal cloth masks. In fact, as far as I can tell, that disclaimer is simply copied and pasted from other sites selling cloth masks, for example: https://teepublic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047284753...

It does not apply to "normal" cloth masks, and it's deliberately misleading to say otherwise, because if it were true about "normal" cloth masks, then these masks would not be more breathable.

I don’t know how to be more clear that the disclaimer is the same than to link you to a site selling normal cloth masks with the exact same disclaimer.

And I don't know how to be more clear that the disclaimer is not the only set of facts in this situation.

Maybe you should have read up thread to see what I was responding to then? This is a thread about the disclaimer.

Nope, it's a thread about how dishonest these mask makers are, considering you're now in my thread.

So it's a cloth mask, which have been shown to barely protect you at all.

> The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including COVID-19/Coronavirus.

That goes beyond the "this isn't an n95 mask" - this is actually saying this mask is purely performative. Which is the accusation anti-maskers make. So they become what they accuse others of doing.

Great business.

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