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.