Masks On! (Clap, Clap) Masks Off! (Clap, Clap) Obey Science!

Before the US was in the iron grip of hysterical mob-think concerning the newest shiny object our Marxist handlers want us to look at and embrace (that'd be face masks) there actually were objective studies on the topic.  Here's a few below.

That being said, don't be misled to take your eye off the ball.  And that "ball" is that this faux crisis is ultimately, and merely, about a viable virus that is not unlike many others that humans have been dealing with for the past 6000 years.  To agree to cover our faces now concerning a virus that is lethal to only a small minority of humans is to compromise with irrationality and despotic authority which sets legal and ethical precedents that should never be entertained for two shakes of a lamb tail.

~  A New England Journal of Medicine article published April 2020 points out:

"We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Focusing on universal masking alone may, paradoxically, lead to more transmission of Covid-19 if it diverts attention from implementing more fundamental infection-control measures...The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic... fear and anxiety are better countered with data and education than with a marginally beneficial mask, particularly in light of the worldwide mask shortage, but it is difficult to get clinicians to hear this message in the heat of the current crisis."

      And further down in the article it states this concerning health care workers:

"What is clear, however, is that universal masking alone is not a panacea. A mask will not protect providers caring for a patient with active Covid-19 if it’s not accompanied by meticulous hand hygiene, eye protection, gloves, and a gown. A mask alone will not prevent health care workers with early Covid-19 from contaminating their hands and spreading the virus to patients and colleagues. Focusing on universal masking alone may, paradoxically, lead to more transmission of Covid-19 if it diverts attention from implementing more fundamental infection-control measures."                       (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372)

~   Another medical reference of a study on masks is "BMJ: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers" put out in 2015 is HERE

~  And a short, accessible article -- that I can't believe is still on the internet -- from January 29, 2020 is at:  NPR News: Face Masks: What Doctors Say About Their Role In Containing Coronavirus
(https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/01/29/800531753/face-masks-what-doctors-say-about-their-role-in-containing-coronavirus)