On the issue of benefits of masking... It will reduce exuding virus loads if you cough or sneeze by catching mucous material inside your mask. A mask helps protect OTHERS. Not you.
If you are coughing or sneezing you should be at home in bed. No mask necessary there either.
“It will reduce exuding virus loads if you cough or sneeze by catching mucous material inside your mask.”
That is the stuff that falls to the ground in 5-10 feet, hence the “Maintain 6 feet separation” rule. And it truly looks like that was NEVER a significant part of COVID transmission, unlike normal flu.
Masks are worthless against aerosols, which is what makes them so problematic as a magic talisman that will stop COVID in its tracks. “Come on, man!”
And yes, it means masks are truly worthless if you are asymptomatic.
Do you really believe that?