On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:44:48 -0400, micky
wrote:

Coincidence:

Watching a rerun of Law & Order from the mid-1990's, Jamie, the female
ADA, goes to the medical ward of a prison, and when she's about to walk
in, someone hands her a medical mask.

FWIW it wasn't cloth, it was one of those semi-stiff dome-like masks.

It was a prop on a TV show. Don't take it too seriously. That is the
same show that told you, taping a pop bottle on a .45 would silence it
and they got DNA results overnight.