Your comment is a textbook example of moving the goalposts and muddying the waters. No-one is arguing that cloth masks are better than surgical masks. Much of

Your comment is a textbook example of moving the goalposts and muddying the waters. No-one is arguing that cloth masks are better than surgical masks. Much of the effort in those studies was focused on how to protect staff in a clinical setting. No-one is recommending cloth masks for health-care workers. However, the overwhelming conclusion from those studies is that that wearing cloth masks in almost all cases (one exception is fleece material) help. Thus cloth masks are recommended in non-clinical settings. For example, take a look at this paper measuring droplet transmission through different types of masks (compared with none at all). https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083