Your evidence for masks working is ... movies? This has come up so often, but clearly, repetition must continue. Masks and mask mandates had no effect on COVID

Your evidence for masks working is ... movies? This has come up so often, but clearly, repetition must continue. Masks and mask mandates had no effect on COVID at any point. Even a cursory amount of time spent with the case graphs and start/end dates will show that to be clear. You simply cannot find inflection points in the case graphs that correlate with mask mandates being added or removed. The reason is, masking assumed SARS-CoV-2 spreads via large water droplets. The mask was supposed to catch these droplets if you were infected and coughed. But actually SARS-CoV-2 spreads like a gas, via invisible aerosols that can float in the air. The article discusses this briefly: Animal experiments to test the efficacy of vaccines generated highly infectious aerosols that are “difficult to detect,” the interim report says, adding that “there were concerns about conducting this type of research in a BSL2 laboratory.” and Two and a half months earlier, according to the interim report, procurement officials at the WIV posted a call for bids on a government website seeking a costly air incinerator. The post was dated Nov. 19, 2019, the very day that the visiting CAS safety official arrived to address a “complex and grave” situation there … If somehow the HEPA filter system failed, because there was a tear or breach … then your quick fix would be to bring in an air incinerator. This was actually known from the start by people paying attention. The Diamond Princess cruise ship proved it. The whole ship was placed in lockdown, where people weren't allowed to leave their cabins, and the initial infections were also confined to quarters. Yet very quickly COVID was cropping up all over the ship despite the lack of contact. Therefore it must have been spreading via the air ducts as a consequence. This sort of thing was to be expected because SARS-1 was found by investigators in Hong Kong to have spread within an apartment building placed in lockdown via the drain pipes connecting bathrooms, and even between buildings, via aerosol spread. Search for "Environmental transmission of SARS at Amoy Gardens" to see. The outbreak on the Diamond Princess revealed not only that lockdowns wouldn't work, but also that lots of people appeared to have prior immunity, somehow. Unfortunately even though this rather 'useful' outbreak happened very early on, the results were ignored by epidemiologists. The reason is fairly clear if you read their papers: they have developed a culture of ignoring inconvenient data and replacing it with assumptions. Epidemiology papers and models will routinely have dozens or even hundreds of assumptions in them, even about variables that have observational data available, and always to the same end of exaggerating both severity of an epidemic along with the ability to control it. Aerosol spread would have rendered epidemiologists entirely useless, as there's no known way to contain or reduce the spread of such a virus, so they'd have had nothing to contribute. Hence the replacement of observational data with the assumption of highly localized droplet spread, to which several different containment strategies could be applied.