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Originally Posted by GoodLife

I'm sorry but those youtube videos are worthless.

Here's a study of a meat processing plant in Germany where facemasks were mandatory. Everyone wore masks yet most within 8 meters of the mask wearing asymptomatic spreader were infected over 3 day period.

Investigation of a superspreading event preceding the largest meat processing plant-related SARS-Coronavirus 2 outbreak in Germany by Thomas Guenther, Manja Czech-Sioli, Daniela Indenbirken, Alexis Robitailles, Peter Tenhaken, Martin Exner, Matthias Ottinger, Nicole Fischer, Adam Grundhoff, Melanie Brinkmann :: SSRN

Look, masks help but are obviously not a guarantee of safety. That's why I choose not to go anywhere I might need one.

I don't see on the investigative report that masks were mandatory or even worn. Did I miss that? I did see that many of the workers lived together in close quarters.