And that explains why it has spread like wildfire?
For every doctor and/or scientist that believes this, you will find another with the opposite opinion.
They are all split.
Hence the reason I don't know what to believe yet except the fact you do not want to catch it regardless.
Spreads like wildfire in a few communities, like nursing homes and a few urban areas
Not exactly wildfire in most of the country my friend
I happen to think a peer reviewed article from the New England Journal of Medicine is a credible source (but I'm sure the Useful Idiots do not)
"We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
Masks do not help stop a virus, no way.
The myth that they stop some large droplets when someone coughs or sneezes is a joke, sure the mask will, but meanwhile the super super small virus will still go the same distance or MORE into the same area.