It’s not the mask, it’s the hands touching the mask and everything else in creation. According to medical people, if you touch your mask you must change it immediately. If you cough or sneeze into it you must change it immediately. If you touch your clothing you must change it immediately.
Masks as a concept are fine. In practice they are ridiculous because no one properly follows the protocols required for safety and effectiveness.
Improperly worn and used masks spread disease.
And there is no way in Hades that you are going to get 300+ million people who have never worn masks before to start wearing them properly, caring for them properly and disposing of them properly.
This is more impractical ideal plane ivory tower theory from eggheads at the CDC.
That was the stupidity of protests and the media claiming “well the protesters wore masks”.
Sure, most of them had masks on. But if you watch any video, not only were they constantly playing with their masks, but they also were holding hands, locking arm-in-arm, and hugging other protesters. No mask protects against direct transmission. Then they were rubbing their eyes.
ANd god knows where they were going to the bathroom, or what they used to wash their hands afterwords. Oh, and then there was the video of “how careful protesters are keeping their hands clean”, that showed them passing a container of lysol wipes down the line, thus having EVERY PERSON touch the can one after another, and not one person wiped the can.