Bros, I've had the wu-flu 3 times now. The face maxi pads don't do shit.
I’d imagine they don’t. You shouldn’t be wearing feminine hygiene devices on your face however. They were not designed to help with Covid.
They are designed for...flow-vid.
...sorry.
I'll allow it.
As for masks: FFP2/3 masks (KN95 or N95 for you godless yanks) are at least 95% efficient at filtering out particles of 0.3 micron in size, and can exceed that efficiency for smaller AND larger particles. Cloth masks, depending on the exact material, are definitely worse at filtering smaller droplets smaller than 0.3 micron as they don't electrostatically filter like non-woven N95 masks do, so they will be worse at protecting you from breathing in viruses attached to small droplets (which is exactly what is likely to be hanging around in the atmosphere, since large droplets instead tend to fall to the floor rather than remain suspended in the air).
However, cloth masks do still filter large droplets pretty efficiently on average (again, material dependent) and since when you exhale, the droplets with viral loads tend to be on the larger side, the masks do serve to reduce the amount (or at least the rate of increase) of virus in the local atmosphere in the event that YOU are spreading them. Hence, if everyone wears masks, the overall numbers of virus in room are reduced, and the probability that you breathe in whatever viruses ARE in the atmosphere is also reduced, the exact reduction depending on the type of mask.
On the other hand, if a few infected peeps decides to show up maskless in a badly ventilated space, the virus concentration in a given space skyrockets, and given mask filtration is stochastic in nature, the law of large numbers eventually guarantees a critical number will get through and you become infected. To use an analogy, seatbelts work, but there's only so much they can do if you do 170 straight into a cliff.