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Not sure why you pinged me, but I read this source, AIER, all the time on COVID (and many other things), and I agree on their view about the (lack of) efficacy of lockdown. But I evaluate each argument separately, and I find the arguments against masking indoors unpersuasive.

Masking imposes no real cost on the overwhelming majority of people, and a significant percentage of people who claim problems are whiners. (Perhaps many American whiners are fat; this is a very small problem in East Asia. Go to Worldometer if you aren’t familiar with the data on COVID there versus in the West..) In East Asia they accept masks without whining, but we don’t

This is surely a part — a little, a lot I can’t say, but a part — of why our COVID issues are worse than in East Asia.