The article you linked doesn't provide any evidence for your medical claims -- in fact, it provides support for my position. Furthermore, the claim I'm making (

The article you linked doesn't provide any evidence for your medical claims -- in fact, it provides support for my position. Furthermore, the claim I'm making (masks may work, but there's very little good-quality evidence that they do) is much softer than the claim you're making (masks work, even though there's very little good-quality evidence that they do). It really bothers me that a medical device has become something so political and so disconnected from evidence-based science that I need to say this, but: for what it's worth, I wear a mask when near other people, both because they may be effective, and because the people I'm near may believe that they are and may thus feel safer seeing me wear it. I can feel that the evidence is very weak and yet still do that.