“I would guess the masks even helped with the spread of the virus.”
I believe that was one of the reasons for the government push to wear them.
Meanwhile, while NYS dropped its muzzle mandate for healthcare settings and nursing homes thus week, I can’t find a single NYS health system that has dropped its muzzle requirement.
In the early days of the pandemic, the government had no solutions to the pandemic even though taxpayers have been charged mega billions for researching just this type of event. The best the CDC could come up with was to make a face diaper out of a t-shirt during the very early stages of the pandemic.