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Originally Posted by Bill14564

Google is your friend and will return many entries including these three:
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers

An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19

Effectiveness of Mask Wearing to Control Community Spread of SARS-CoV-2

Though I have no doubt they will not be sufficient to change your opinion.

I was surprised to find no articles reporting that masks do not help. None said masks were 100% effective but I did not notice any that said masks were 10)% ineffective.

Apparently Google is NOT your friend.

Link 1: A poorly designed study with too many unknown behavior variables: They found a diference of a whopping 0.3% between mask and no mask.

Link 2: Quote: Overall, evidence from RCTs and observational studies is informative, but not compelling on its own. None of the studies looked specifically at cloth masks.

Therefore, we should not be surprised to find that there is no RCT for the impact of masks on community transmission of any respiratory infection in a pandemic.

Link 3: Yikes! The eleven sources listed in in the left-most column in the table, four list outcomes beginning with the word, “Estimated….” Another three sources, different from the four I just mentioned, describe interventions as, “Self-reporting….” “Self-reporting” and “Estimated” are not terms I associate with objective, replicable data.

Google tip: If you search for "studies that show masks work" you won't see something like this:

Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data

Dr. Brosseau is a national expert on respiratory protection and infectious diseases and professor (retired), University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Sietsema is also an expert on respiratory protection and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data | CIDRAP

If the science is over your head. just look at some graphs that show real world results



Hawaii is an island, can control incoming travel, has had the longest lockdown of any state, and has over 80% mask compliance.

More graphs showing covid vs masks. Covid keeps winning

https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67...LY_BRADLEY.pdf