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My understanding is that the medical community initially believed that only N95 masks made a difference in the rate of transmission, and because those masks were and are 1) rare, 2) expensive, and 3) required for medical workers to safely do their jobs the common advice was "don't worry about it". As understanding of the virus and how it's transmitted grew we came to realize that anything that prevents microdroplets from your nose and mouth from floating around the air would help prevent transmission of the virus.

(This isn't a flaw or a problem, by the way - this is just how science works. We had an understanding of the world, new facts emerged, from those facts we built a new understanding.)

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