Which isn't even getting into the psychological issue of people assuming themselves more safe because of the mask, and thereby engaging in riskier behavior anyway.
As such, most people seem to think social distancing is only without the mask, instead of both being the "necessary" part. Such as the riots.
Not even close.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22masks%22+%22infections%22&filter=years.1949-2019
tl;dr they might do something for the general public, but there's no statistically significant proof of that fact
also, if you apply common sense, if you're not sick, wearing a mask does nothing. That's just common sense.
Which isn't even getting into the psychological issue of people assuming themselves more safe because of the mask, and thereby engaging in riskier behavior anyway.
As such, most people seem to think social distancing is only without the mask, instead of both being the "necessary" part. Such as the riots.