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Do you mean N95 respirators?
P.S. The gym is one of the worst places to unmask, because people are breathing very heavily there. If someone's contagious (which, again, they can be contagious before symptoms even set in!), they're spewing more infectious aerosols in the same amount of time because the volume of air they're exhaling is greater than if they were just sitting on the bus. Meanwhile, people are breathing in more air than normal as well, which also means a higher dose of aerosols
There's an inherent contradiction in going to the gym and unmasking. Going to the gym: working out, trying to get/stay fit and healthy. Unmasking: gambling with your health, when if the gamble goes badly you may become too fatigued to ever work out again. May have messed up cardiovascular health. May struggle to walk up and down the stairs without getting winded anymore. I've known so many semi-competitive athletes who got wrecked by covid years after the pandemic supposedly "ended".
At this point, wearing a mask is akin to not picking up the habit of chain-smoking. Actually that's a bad analogy, because it would be far healthier and safer to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes in once sitting once every 6 months than to get Covid once every 6 months.
P.P.S. Is getting erections important to them? Better keep that mask on: https://hexbear.net/comment/6685613
Yep!