This has got to be brilliant snark, right?
I mean, this is too easy. Someone made this just for me to comment on- or to test the gullibility of the American public, which at this point is like testing the ability of ants to tear apart a cupcake on a hot summer's day.
But just in case....let's take a look at the "claims" made by the makers of the CopperWear Mask:
"Disposable masks are now a limited commodity. That's because you usually have to use a new one every day."
Hate to be a pedant, but actually we usually never have to wear one at all. We are wearing masks now because of a pandemic. When it passes, we won't be wearing masks so much anymore. Unless, of course, our jaw muscles get sore. Because We All Know how awesome copper is at healing sore muscles....
But here's a Reusable mask with "the properties of copper." Other than being....ummm....copper-colored, what exactly ARE those properties, anyway? And even if this ad is specifically aimed at the mouth-breathers who believe that copper has "properties" that are valuable for health reasons, I hope they at least note that the commercial doesn't even claim that these masks CONTAIN copper, just "the properties" of copper. Whatever those are.
Oh wait, copper thread is "woven into the fabric" using "fiber matrix technology." I'm guessing that means by using the technology we call a Modern Automated Sewing Machine because...wow.
"The best news is that these masks are available now." Not that they work to prevent illness, just that they are available. And look, they can be shipped directly to your door, and placed right there, in front of your door-- just like everything else you order. And you can use it while you are working on your computer, alone in an office, which either means that not only are you a stupid, frightened sheep and an easy mark for scammers like this, but you also don't know how viruses are transmitted. You really don't need to wear a mask while typing on a computer all by yourself, dear.
"It covers you nose, mouth and face!" And now we're all done talking about copper (done before we even got started, in fact, because at no point in this two minutes of Dumb are we told what "properties of copper" are supposed to be important here.) We've moved on to it being washable/reusable (like plenty of other masks out there) and it's woven (like every cloth mask out there.) "It can create separation"- will it? No claims made here, either. It just CAN.
Plus, it's got the properties of copper. Not sure we've mentioned that in the last eight seconds.
It's super-comfortable, so you can wear it all day as you stand in front of the most obvious green screens ever.
The rest of this ad is just a repeat of scenes of people dramatically dropping those incredibly expensive (and probably unavailable now anyway) disposable masks into trash cans and then taking their reusable, washable copper-property masks out of dryers, so the only reason to watch the second minute is to get the outrageous price- $29.99 plus shipping and handling. For a piece of cloth with the undefined properties of copper (I figured it out- the properties it shares with products which claim to contain copper is the inflated expense.)
And here's the punchline, from the ad description on Spotify: "the mask is said to be infused with the properties of copper and is machine washable." Talk about an ingenious use of the English language: not only is there no claim that the mask contains copper, but it's not even claimed that it for sure contains the properties of copper. It's not even claimed outright that it's MACHINE WASHABLE- it's just "said to be."
Again, this has got to be snark. Right? RIGHT?
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