Masks do work. They are not the only measure but part of a set of small actions that are easy to take and -together- work. For some further evidence, see Hong

Masks do work. They are not the only measure but part of a set of small actions that are easy to take and -together- work. For some further evidence, see Hong Kong; Nearly 8 million people live in some of the densest city of the world; from day one, hkers have been wearing masks en masse and implementing cleaning precautions -not just hands but also doors and lift buttons, etc; The result is an infection rate proven to be extremely low: 700/M infected and 14/M deaths. That’s about 1/40th the rate of the US. This without hard confinement. There have been additional measures to stop the importation of the virus, like enforced quarantine and intermittent closures or early closure of some businesses. There has also been a mass test of more than 1.5M people with only about 40 cases found, so the infection rate _is_ really low. What has not happened because of the mask? no deaths, no marked increase in hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses or infections caused by masks, no-one got carbon dioxide poisoning... Is wearing a mask pleasant? No, it’s a pain in the a and I was quite sceptic at the beginning. I still think we may be overdoing it a bit in HK since there is so little infection, but no-one here is ready to live another SARS, so people do what’s right and don’t complain.