This seems more like it should be “The Masks Were Barely Working All Along.” Sadly the effectiveness of surgical and cloth masks just isn’t very good [for COVI

This seems more like it should be “The Masks Were Barely Working All Along.” Sadly the effectiveness of surgical and cloth masks just isn’t very good [for COVID]. And we see that being used as ammunition by the anti-public health measures crowd now. Truth is we knew this much earlier in the pandemic. Just as we knew it was spreading via aerosols but took forever to acknowledge that officially. N95/KN95 style masks would show a much greater response and we should have a officially acknowledged that. Ideally we should’ve made them available to people once they became more available later in the pandemic.