I agree that required masking wasn't very beneficial to those who didn't want to wear a mask, but it seems very likely to me that it still would have helped red

I agree that required masking wasn't very beneficial to those who didn't want to wear a mask, but it seems very likely to me that it still would have helped reduce spread from those people. Even a poor fitting, poor material mask does a good job of capturing or slowing moisture and other infection carrying materials from leaving the mouth of an infected person.