Nj , I'm not to sure myself whether face masks work or not, but you are talking upwards of 20k die of flu, but we've had 120k so far die of covid and still going up.
But back to the masks as they stand at the moment, when they first came into the shops ( poor quality) I might add, they were commanding silly prices for such rubbish, they've almost reduced in price by 50%, this leads me to believe that to a degree the bottom has fell out the market, so what better than to re- invent the new singing and dancing mask.
In an earlier thread of mine I've mentioned Piers Morgan asking Matt Hancock why he awarded a PPE contract to one of his life long friends, this friend owns and runs his own pub, and has no connection in the supply or manufacture of PPE?
The contract was for 30 million, this is a hell of a lot of money, but not in terms of the amount that has been spent. So my question would be, why such a small amount awarded to a friend who is a publican, when at the beginning of this pandemic and most of the last 12 months they would not entertain small fry one man bands. This friends business experience is pulling pints at the bar., Well it was.