as I said, all anecdotal ■■■■■■■■■ based on “studies” designed to elicit a desired result.
and even if that part wasn’t garbage
lets see… if you begin measuring AFTER the virus has plateaued and end as the wave subsides… what do you think the result will be?
This “study” is a part of the anecdotal crap the CDC used to pretend it has a handle on things and were telling you what you could do to help. The only “science” involved is sociology.
no, they are not effective against this disease (which is droplet based not airborne) and the only study done that was actually controlled and verified (as much as it could be) including some 13000 subjects confirmed without doubt that cloth masks did less than nothing and may have actually caused harm making people believe they were safer. That surgical masks at best made a small (almost imeasurable) difference though it could not confirm it was the masks that made the difference (if there even was one) and not other factors, and that N95 masks were more effective when worn and used properly (which was almost never) but used the way they were they did lower the risk for people about 11%. That was the only group with any sort of positive result.
I also remember saying it was mostly vaccinated one that were spreading the virus…and of course libs came unglued because they believed in BS line that if you were vaccinated you will not get covid.
But they were the ones spreading covid because they didn’t know they had it.