An essentially no-risk intervention plausibly reduces infection risk and all of a sudden the bar of evidence to practice basic hygiene ratchets up to randomized

An essentially no-risk intervention plausibly reduces infection risk and all of a sudden the bar of evidence to practice basic hygiene ratchets up to randomized phase 3 studies. Meanwhile, the same people will cite this preclinical, speculative, provocation of a paper and say masking is murder. Look at Japan’s experience with COVID. Look at the United States. That’s epidemiological data. Look at how elastomeric masks reduced TB infection rates to nil at the Texas Center for Infectious Disease. Masks (of any type) don’t work? That’s a political slogan, not evidence.