Even with those, it's pointless.

in the military, when you enter the gas chamber with your gas mask you learn the following: - if you lift your mask to touch your face, scratch an itch, or readjust it, your dead. - even if you reseat your mask successfully, your face and eyes will start to burn, not a lot, but just enough to know you don't want to do that again

The truth of it is, masks don't work. Surgeons use them for splash protection. The military uses them along with gloves and a suit to keep them alive for minutes or hours during a chemical or biological attack.

Average people touch a duck ton of things throughout their day. They then lift their mask, touch their lips or nose, rub their eyes, or put something in their ear to scratch it, all direct pathways inside the human body.

** One ** viral particle makes it in, and it will replicate very fast in it's new host.

The reality is that to truly "slow the spread" using NPI's(non pharmaceutical interventions), requires a commitment that 90% people are incapable of, unless they factually know their life is dependent on it, and even then many aren't capable of it, let alone accounting for children or elderly. In such an example, people would go from clean room to clean room, de-contaminating, sterilizing, and then putting on more PPE (e.g. swapping out mask, gloves and eyepro) to venture back out where they need to go. It isn't feasible.

The reality is, everyone knows this is horse shite. It's about which team you are on, what cult you belong to, which idol do you worship.

Two years ago, overnight, people went from shopping maskless in Home Depot and Costco, to "if you don't wear a mask in these places you're literally killing someone".

This isn't about a virus. It stopped being about a virus after the data from the cruise ship came back, well before our "slow the spread" moment.