Your Favorite Face Mask Might Not Be as Protective as You Think

B2 – Upper Intermediate

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommends that all people wear masks in public as more contagious variants of COVID-19 are rising. Coronavirus can be spread from coughing, sneezing, or even talking in close distance. Masks can keep respiratory droplets from reaching another person. Among the popular masks, which one is the most effective in protecting you from COVID-19?

Read the article and be able to answer the questions that follow.

https://www.newsweek.com/your-favorite-face-mask-might-not-protective-you-think-1525247

Discussion Questions:

  1. How did you feel the first time you wore a mask? What do think about them? How has your behavior towards wearing them changed?
  2. According to doctors and medical experts, what is the importance of wearing masks?
  3. What myths and critical advice have you heard about wearing masks and how did you react to them?
  4. What should we keep in mind when buying masks?
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2 replies on “Your Favorite Face Mask Might Not Be as Protective as You Think”

How did you feel the first time you wore a mask? What do you think about them?
I had mixed feelings the first time that I wore a mask, at first I feel myself safe, although I don’t know if it was a false sense of security or not, on the other hand I felt the true dimension of what was happening in the early stage of the pandemic.
I think that having a face protection could be the first measure to adopt in this case, but now that few vaccines are being released, eventually the use of this kind of protection maybe wouldn’t be that necessary.

According to doctors and medical experts, what are the roles of masks?
It is said that wearing masks protects not only you but the rest of people of your surroundings, they prevent you and others from being infected.

What myths and critical advice have you heard about wearing masks and how did you react to them?
I knew most of them, the surprise came when I’ve read about the misconception of neck gaiters because I chose these kind of face mask when we didn’t have any medical masks, I thought it protected me and others, but the truth is that it didn’t.

What do you keep in mind when you buy a mask?
I always keep in mind about safety, I don’t mind if it’s not wearable or comfortable. I want a mask that protects myself and others, and it should be the key factor for the rest of the people as long as they can afford them.

It is great that you used complex sentences in answering the questions. However, you can pay a bit more attention to proper usage of transition words and when to end a sentence so your thought/s would be expressed more clearly.

Take this sentence for example:

I had mixed feelings the first time that I wore a mask, at first I feel myself safe, although I don’t know if it was a false sense of security or not, on the other hand I felt the true dimension of what was happening in the early stage of the pandemic.

I had mixed feelings the first time that I wore a mask. At first, I felt myself safe/I felt that I was safe, However, I don’t know if it was a false sense of security or not. On the other hand I eventually saw the true extent of what was happening in the early stage of the pandemic.

Keep going with your writing practice here. Until your next entry!

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