> You're drawing a conclusion that the data doesn't support. I'm telling you the conclusions of the paper. Your faith in masks is an entirely separate question

> You're drawing a conclusion that the data doesn't support. I'm telling you the conclusions of the paper. Your faith in masks is an entirely separate question that is clearly unaffected by the data here, because it requires proving a negative. Is it possible that cloth masks actually work, and this huge study failed to find any significant effect? Anything is possible, but the results here are indistinguishable from noise, and don't support the claim. And with every RCT that gets published showing negligible effect from community masking, the probability that the claim is true gets smaller.