What is whose point?

Sar-cov2 is predominantly spread by aerosols. This is has been established. That you could catch it from someone coughing in your mouth does not change that in the slightest.

Here is a good review of the evidence of mask usage on viral transmission.

Do Masks Work? | City Journal

If you're too lazy to read the entire thing, I'll sum it up for you. They don't do anything and in fact trend to harm. This is based on the 14 RCTs on masks with hand washing and other variables. There are other observational studies and anecdotal stories which are the same or slightly positive.

This is not to say N95 don't work against aerosols. They do but even then, must be well fitted. Beards are out.

Cloth masks actually make health care workers sicker in one RCT.

Anyone who is suggesting a universal mask mandate without requiring an N95 is not following what the science is indicating.

Ah yes, City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute. Manhattan Institute for Policy Research - SourceWatch

"The Manhattan Institute concerns itself with such things as 'welfare reform' (dismantling social programs), 'faith-based initiatives' (blurring the distinction between church and state), and 'education reform' (destroying public education)," Kurt Nimmo wrote October 10, 2002, in CounterPunch.[3] It was also recognised as leading the Republican/corporate efforts to destroy Ralph Nader and his supporters, in the 1990s.

Thank you for this comment. I did not see this inflection when I posted it to the website, and that is of course my fault as editor. I'll make this adjustment.

Yes, after the Delta variant, next comes the echo variant, then the Frank variant… I think it would be easier just to get a respirator installed into our nasal cavities maybe just before our lungs.

I have to wonder when people make blanket statements like that and don't provide any proof. Why would you think masks don't work when every doctor and dentist will wear one if they are near you?

I have to wonder when people make blanket statements like that and don't provide any proof. Why would you think masks don't work when every doctor and dentist will wear one if they are near you? Nothing stop you from using a better mask

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God has came to me three times during the covid19 epidemic, once with a mask, once with a vaccine and once with a booster. Thank you God, I will be in heaven at at later date.

A mask is harming them?? How? The little kiddies dont get to show off their teeth? This topic has been discussed a zillion times. Have you seen the covid cases of kids since school started? Have you not seen the rise in cases with the variants popping up?
Yes, classes outdoors would be great but not feasible unless you want your kids keeling overwith heat stroke.
Masks is the next best thing. If you dont want your kiddie wearing a mask then home school them. You have choices

47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for Covid and 32 more confirm their negative health effects. They are simply pacifiers for scared people.

If you or your loved ones catch Covid 19 you will know the answer to your question , sadly . We see people over and over again in a hospital bed getting oxygen , that didn’t believe in Covid and never got vaccinated , explaining how sorry they are .

Maybe get infected with the word of God but not COVID.

New Study Finds COVID Masks Harm Children’s Physical & Mental Health | Principia Scientific Intl..

A new study, involving over 25,000 school-aged children, shows that masks are harming schoolchildren physically, psychologically, and behaviorally, revealing 24 distinct health issues associated with wearing masks.

But then again, if you get them used to being controlled at an early age, it's gets easier to control them when they're older. So, there's that.......

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Yes, even people of worship get Covid. A lot of news reports pick on the younger generation just because young people mingle more than a lot of adults. Covid will never end until we get it in our heads to do exactly what our medical people tell us what to do. But I know as well as anyone else some people don’t believe what’s really happening.