Your neck gaiter is probably fine

[petrea_mitchell]

Science News my preferred top source for what it says on the tin, doesn't normally pick what to write about based on mainstream headlines, but feels the need to engage in some mythbusting now: "4 reasons you shouldn't trash your neck gaiter based on the new mask study".

The tl;dr is that that study was just about making a device that could measure what masks do, and not sufficient for saying that one type of mask is overall better than another.

Comments

[joseph_teller]

Yes, I use a gaiter with a 4 layer cotton filter under it and have thru things. My wife started with a bandana until we could buy cotton masks (which was not easy during the PPE shortage).

I tried the masks and many of them don't fit right, the elastics don't hold up on me either. They have actually less material layers than my system does.

The Gaiter holds everything securely in place for me, but is harder to talk with it on with the filter so I generally don't.