I read a bit on that data review and it looks very weak to me. Where I live almost no one wore masks and many folks would snarl and scoff at those who did. And

I read a bit on that data review and it looks very weak to me. Where I live almost no one wore masks and many folks would snarl and scoff at those who did. And the percent of folks who wore them covering their mouth but not their nose was was very high. The local WalMarts didn't even try to enforce masking, and most of our local politicians didn't either. The mayor of the nearest city to us (Branson, MO) was booted out and replaced by an anti-masker. And we couldn't get N95 grade masks until close to a year after covid started spreading. There is no way anyone could conclude "masks don't work" here where I live, but anyone could prove "mask mandates didn't work" here. That same thing was happening all over the U.S. What I can prove is I, my wife, and one of our daughters who lives with us, all wore masks, wore N95 mask as soon as we could purchase them, got fully vaxxed and boosted, and we've not been infected... yet. And that we've had at least 15,990 infected and at least 252 killed by covid in the county where we live with a population of around 56,500 (Taney County, MO) I don't think it's a leap to assume many more were infected here and not reported. We also had one of the highest refusal rates to participate in the Census in 2020, and those two things are very much connected. I worked for the Census that year. Way more than not I was snarled at by folks refusing to participate and berated for wearing a cloth mask (that was required). One of the places it spread fast was the little churches in the rural areas. As everywhere else, it was mostly the elderly that were being killed by it, and that's where many of them were infected. There is no way one could "prove" mask did not work here and I don't think what happened here was uncommon.