They don't stop aerosolized viruses like covid.... lol
And Fauci was 100% spot on in his first early interview on masks...
Dr Fauci says “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”
And they don't stop viruses in Surgical settings, mainly to keep bacteria from the open wounds... and even now that's up for debate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/
Intuition would suggest that facemasks offer a physical barrier preventing the emanation of droplets from the oral or nasal passages and therefore satisfy the efficacy requirement of the evidence ladder. However, there are a number of different hypotheses as to why this may not be the case. ‘Venting’ is a phenomenon whereby air leaks at the interface between mask and face which can act to disperse potential contaminants originating from the pharynx.5 The accumulation of moisture, during prolonged usage, may exacerbate this problem by increasing resistance to air flow through the filter itself. Moisture accumulation is also thought to facilitate the movement of contaminants through the material of the mask itself by capillary action. These bacteria can subsequently be dislodged by movement. Friction at the face/mask interface has also been demonstrated to disperse skin scales which can further contribute towards wound contamination.6
In the modern era, there has also been a scarcity of experimental evidence to support the effectiveness of facemasks in the prevention of surgical site infections. The earliest retrospective studies7 failed to demonstrate any statistically significant improvement in surgical site infection rates following the use of masks.
Congrates on being lied to all through covid... Wouldn't this be considered "Misinformation"
How many people wore the same blue masks for weeks on end. Dropping them down between between bites on an airplane. Wearing them from the door of a restaurant, only to be allowed to them off once you were seated. Did you really believe any of this charade. You shouldn't have... But many still do. It was ALL FUCKING THEATER!!! Nothing else
lol... I don't blame anyone for believing health officials back then. Why would they lie to us? However, its completely on YOU if you decide to blindly follow anything these fucktards ever tell you again and when Government Officials decided to strip you of your Constitutional Rights in the name of "Safety".