There's a few problems here..

First, i realize that posting such articles is insulting your religion. I'm not trying to be offensive.

What you fail to realize is this isn't the first pandemic the world has seen, it isn't even the first one where the scientific method has been employed to test the efficacy of things, such as cloth masks.

We've had numerous sars-cov or coronavirus, covid like illness (CLI) or influenza like illness (ILI) epidemics/pandemics in the past.

Most famously, scientific studies were done on the efficacy of masks during an actual deadly pandemic, the Spanish flu, and they found that cloth masks are largely ineffective, lest we bring up pig flu, Hong Kong flu etc.

The article falls in line with numerous other studies which show cloth masks are largely ineffective, such as a recent influenza study.

The authors demonstrate that they understand the necessity of masks. Hospital staff (at least until the orange man bad days, or the "Science!" Days) knew that you don't walk around the hospital in a gown, mask and gloves and then walk into the OR and perform surgery. These items are to help prevent outside infections in a somewhat sterile environment. Once finished with the surgery, the items are discarded. They don't reuse them.. At least they didn't, who knows now in a world where men can be women if they feel like it..

As we can see now, science and the scientific method is being replaced with "Science!".. Largely done so individuals like you can feel good about your political posturing and that your god (the govt) is in control and they'll take care of you. The state is the elixir of the masses, you my friend are part of the main congregation..

God's great gift to mankind is the scientific method. The ability to use reason and logic, a process by which we can discover truths of the universe, and new data's are always being discovered. Unfortunately, the data's continue to show that in this case, what you want to believe isn't true. Plenty of studies outside the US continue to demonstrate this. But here, where a man feels pretty and calls himself a Lady, the masses deny truth.

But deep down, I'm sure you already knew that.