I have no doubt that colds and flus are down. How can they not be when the government is/was shutting down everything from barbershops to schools and employers are taking temp checks to gain entry to the building and telling any employees to stay home if they have cold or flu like symptoms? Of course colds and flus would be down but at what cost? I don’t believe that the nasty breath soaked cloth mask or made out of paper ones are the reason for it.

My employer (a major international company known to everyone) supplies us with paper mask that state right on the box that they are not respirators and will not protect against Covid. They tell us to wear them anyway.