Just for info: in France, wearing a gas mask or anything covering your face during a legal and authorized protest is illegal. (law n°2010-1192 of 11 October 2010)

This is my way to say: you can choose to protect yourself, sure.

But laws can be changed, fast and easy. Particularly and actually always, when it serves the people in power and the system globally.

I'm surprised they didn't recommend the 3M half-face respirator with the pink cartridges: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10013219/. You saw them all over Hong Kong, you can buy them at Home Depot (so readily available in quantity), and they don't make you look like an ICE agent.

Edit: Because I can't reply to the child comment:

> Maybe because a mask without eye protection doesn't help when the US government sprays irritants straight into the faces of their citizens?

They sell goggles and other eye protection in the next aisle at Home Depot.

Poignant and useful writing.