Or, maybe, patients who wear a mask all the time are getting sick from rebreathing their own concentrated germs.
I have to wear a mask at work, based on company rules. 4 10 hour shifts weekly sometimes more. My job is pretty physical. I have never felt more tired. Trying to do anything on my days off seems like a chore. I haven’t actually been sick this year accept the occasional cough and my sinuses/allergies acting up. I hate the stupid things. Even if it is anecdotal evidence it is pretty hard to ignore. Of course try explaining that to a hard core masker, especially one that is a leftie.
I feel you are correct about masks.
They hold the virus and God knows what on your face.
I don't wear a mask. Not even in the stores here locally that say the county commissioners require masks. What do they know? They are elected lay people, not medical experts.
Most of this is mass hysteria and fear-mongering. At age 72, I've lived through more than a few pandemics. Never before, in my lifetime, has the economy been shut down to keep people from dying. You're lucky is you even heard about them in the news. People died. Life went on. This time around it's all politically-driven. Presidential election year and finding a reason to blame Trump for something else he didn't do.
You may be right in saying that continual mask wearing cause people to get sick from rebreathing the germs and bacteria in the environment. The only thing mask wearing protects you from is the guilt you have from the politicians telling you what to do.