Like I said, it takes an @Incel Joe level of stupid to believe that a 0.05- to 0.2-micron virus cannot get through the 50-micron-wide gaps in a mask.
That these masks offer any genuine protection at all against any virus is just pure bullshit.
Yet these are the same masks your surgeon will wear when performing surgery on you. Not to protect themselves, but to protect you.
Of course your other point is about nothing more that keeping the bullshit fearmongering going—the masks as a constant reminder to people to remain afraid and compliant. Also as a means to cut us off from one another, to suppress social interactions by muffling speech and concealing facial expressions.
Right, it's all a conspiracy.... it takes a Mormon Bob Level of crazy to think that... but.
Here's the thing.. most companies have gone FAR BEYOND what the government has mandated. For instance, the company I am currently consulting with not only requires masks, they are staggering shifts of office workers, putting markers on the floor to make sure people don't run into each other, etc. And if one person tests positive, they close down the whole section of the building they worked in. They even recently took a survey to determine how many people they have that are vaccinated, to include contractors and consultants.
Now, I would like to think the managers are smart people... you know, smarter than some electrician who belongs to a cult, anyway. Do you really think they are taking these kinds of measures because they have fallen for a hoax? Or have they determined that the cost of these countermeasures outweighs the cost of losing even one employee to Covid?
I'm old enough to remember when Ford had us all wear "WIN" buttons to fight inflation, or when everyone rushed out to get little flag pins after 9/11. That's a meaningless control attempt by government. Masks actually do have some benefit.
Again, I point at Japan, where masks were already widely used before Covid, and where culturally, they do bowing instead of shaking hands. And the Japanese, despite having a far greater population density than we do, have only had 18,000 Covid Deaths vs. our 800,000.
This was never about protecting anyone from any pathogen. From the very beginning, the #CoronaHoax2020 was never about anything other than providing criminals and tyrants who infest government with a new set of excuses to seize and abuse illegitimate powers, to enrich and empower themselves to the detriment and harm of those whose duty it is theirs to serve.
Yet at the end of the day, Trump was voted out of office because he FAILED to protect us. Let that sink in for a moment, Mormon Bob.
Now, I am going to try to have a deeper conversation with you on this. All government is at the end of the day balancing individual liberties against collective good. What I've seen with you, Bob, is that you are very concerned about your own liberties but a lot less concerned with those of others. You think it's perfectly fine for the police to shoot people you call "sub-human" (i.e. not white who might have made mistakes in their lives), but you will scream like a banshee if someone makes you get a shot or wear a mask.