That’s because the time you have the mask off is when you are indoors with other family members, or you get your food handled by people in the food service, many of whom interact with many people per day or even per hour. Not only that, but outdoors you actually get sunlight and germ killing UV radiation.
But only 15% of people who DIDN’T wear a mask (and were even MORE exposed to the same people that the masked people were) got coronavirus. This tells me that if you wear a mask most or all the time you are almost 6 times as likely to get covid-19 than other people who aren’t mask Nazis.
Food service people mainly transmit to coworkers.
They are the ones they are in prolonged contact with, not customers.
I saw some numbers from an area county health department.
The numbers between sit down restaurants and drive thru restaurants were almost identical.
And yet they were trying to blame the fact of infections on the fact that they were restaurants and the high flow of people.
Problem is, drive thrus workers are only “in contact” with customers a matter of seconds.
Now if you compare restaurant workers infection rates to those of office workers, I bet you’d find almost exact infection rates.