Last Friday, state of New York announced that mask mandates would resume effective on Monday, December 13.
Why wait until Monday if it was such an emergency. Was the big, bad virus taking the weekend off? This is why none of these mask mandates have any credibility with me. I proudly walked through Grand Central today with no mask and nobody hassled me. Though I regret to say that about 98% of everybody else compliantly had theirs on, they all looked like cows being led to slaughter.
Not that wearing a cloth diaper has any effect at all.
Fauci is little more than a used-car salesman for vaccines at this point. He offers no practical advice to anyone.
Here's the Cliffs Notes version - they don't work:
Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. We similarly found limited evidence on the effectiveness of improved hygiene and environmental cleaning.
Whether or not you wear a mask -- even a properly selected, applied, fit-tested, worn and maintained mask (which nearly all are not) -- has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you catch the Fauci Flu.
Nothing whatsoever.
QED
The most effect for the individual is his/her belief that the
mask helps in some regards whether it does or not.
People moving about are touching items, breathing air in the
same space with others so in effect we all are being exposed
to the contaminates in the area we are in at the time.