| Your lancet study with 172 publications comes to this conclusion: "These data also suggest that wearing face masks protects people (both health-care workers and the general public) against infection by these coronaviruses." Again, were is evidence that they don't work? For example if cloth masks would not block around 40% in contorlled experiments:
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00637-20 Masks are not the magic one thing. Yet, it's one of the measures that helps. Don't put too much trust in masks, add social distancing and other preventive measures. Yet, I don't see what the rational behind "they don't work" is. They lower the risk of getting infected and more important to infect others (anything in front of your mouth will do as it stops droplets ... basic physics. how much it does it that's debatable. If I have a very wet speaking language, and am infected with COVID. You tell me I'm infecting the same amount of people if I wear a mask as if I would not wear one? (given the rest is the same??). Sorry, my understanding of physics does not agree with you. Not even going for virology or other topics. Do you have a novel particle model we can use that explains your assumptions? You should test it in a lab. |