witnessed in my 51 years on this earth. There are countless studies that demonstrate the effectiveness masks at reducing spread. They ALL demonstrate the effectiveness at reducing the spread from an infected person to others. Some also demonstrate a level of protection afforded to the wearer... for either reducing the likelihood of infection or lowering the exposure and allowing the body to mount a more effective defense. They almost all demonstrate a synergistic benefit when both an infected person and a non infected person wear a mask.

At the end of the day, it's a mask. Even if all of the studies and simple common sense turn out to be dead wrong, the downside is that we were a little inconvenienced by unnecessarily wearing a mask during a pandemic. What in the hell goes on in the mind of someone who fights this so hard. I truly don't get it. It's like something went terribly wrong in the wiring of their brain.