Easy explanation..the “masks” being worn were probably cloth masks. Maybe bandanas, a T-shirt pulled over one’s nose, etc. More likely, whatever people were trying to wear left their nose exposed..maybe their mouth. I’ve seen it so many times just walking around. Basically, America SUCKED at trying to do masks and it was a joke from day one.
If you have a community where only 50% of the people even come CLOSE to wearing “decent” (surgical and/or KN95/N95) masks, you can’t them come back and say “but, we had a lot of infections, so ‘Masks Don’t Work!’). Instead, the OBVIOUS answer is..masks DO work (just go look at Taiwan, S. Korea, New Zealand, Hong Kong, ...) but the community in question just sucks at using them properly or, even more likely, just uses the wrong kind of masks.
The evidence is plentiful and irrefutable. Go look at virtually ANY Asian country who knows how to use masks and the type of mask to use. How many COVID infections/million and deaths per million did THEY have compared to the US?
Yeah..because “masks don’t work”. WRONG! They DO work when worn consistently (90+% of population), properly (no exposed noses or God help us, mouths) and are the RIGHT type (surgical or KN95/N95) of mask.
And don’t try to explain it away by suggesting vitamin intake differences, etc. That’s just plain ridiculous.
Sun exposure is ridiculous?
RCMP and Walmart were both using n95s.
I have not worn one once.
Can you guess how many times I was sick?