Fueri
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Most human-borne airborne viruses are actually suspended in water droplets that would be stuck in your mask anyway. Nothing is perfect and certainly some escape. But regardless of this argument the removal of my mask was the only change that coincided with me getting a little bit more sick for a while, as I am already fairly antisocial and don't do a lot of visiting or mingling. I also finally got covid after I stopped wearing a mask as did the majority of my coworkers.
Droplets do not suspend, aerosols suspend, and it is those aerosols that will go through the mask or into any gaps in the seal of the mask on the face.
Aerosols are completely different from droplets in terms of physical size and this ability to remain aloft and to drift on air currents. It's the aerosols that render the masks inneffective, not the droplets, which, as you indicate, would be stopped in many cases by the physical barrier.