I fully support your critical thinking about masks. There's conclusive evidence that masks help on a micro level by stopping droplets. It's possible that mask

I fully support your critical thinking about masks. There's conclusive evidence that masks help on a micro level by stopping droplets. It's possible that masks also increase aggregate infection rate by requiring a population uneducated in mask usage to apply a potential plague vector directly to their faces. It will be shocking if science does come back in the future and indicates that mask usage reduces the chance of spreading covid BUT INCREASES ones chance of contracting it. Mask usage is important and many people don't know how to use a mask properly. If someone puts a cloth mask on backwards they're inhaling a virus that stays on surfaces for days. Masks may also increase the chance of infection by causing people to put their hands near their face more often to adjust or don the mask. Even in the most recent World Health Organization report: "At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider " Additionally Sweden had no mask laws and its infection rate has stabilized while place with mask laws like Cali and Washington have skyrocketing rates of infection. Masks have become a religious war and most people accept it without question and have never looked a single shred of research from legitimate sources that aren't news media based. I personally think it gives people the feeling of power over a powerless situation. I just hate to see laws forcing people to do something backed by weak science and I hope this isn't like Thalidomide or Lead paint where experts validated something based on weak science that turned out to be wrong.