I get it. The jury is out on masks. Help? Maybe. Hurt, probably not. So, saichel would say to use them. Even if clinically useless, it will keep the dogs (the political enforcers) at bay.
But there is something missing from all this. We have been believing that if not for masks, things “would have been” worse. That’s not scientific, and is something we only believe. It might be rational, but it does not become fact. Why is this relevant? Here’s my hypothesis. So many of the cases of infections have been good at social distancing, and wore masks. How did they contract Covid-19? I believe there are other means of transmission, besides the droplets. Without having identified anything yet, there must be alternative explanations for so many cases who have been quarantined, distanced, and masked.
So debate the mask thing, and pasken in whichever direction you want. We are still missing so much data.