So weird that the state of our discourse, even four years post-pandemic, is still stuck on "do masks reduce disease transmission", something that (1) has been p

So weird that the state of our discourse, even four years post-pandemic, is still stuck on "do masks reduce disease transmission", something that (1) has been paradigmatically settled science* since the dawn of the germ theory of disease, (2) has never been seriously challenged and (3) remains true every time (as here) it's been re-studied. Yet... * Not quite the same thing as "true". Very rarely paradigms are wrong. But they aren't here, and... I mean duh.