Liberals doing "science."
"An experiment using high-speed video found that hundreds of droplets ranging from 20 to 500 micrometers were generated when saying a simple phrase, but that nearly all these droplets were blocked when the mouth was covered by a damp washcloth"
That's fucking brilliant. Why didn't anyone else think of doing this ingenious test? Did you guys know that a wet washcloth would catch a lot of moisture if directed right at it? lol. Gee, what a revelation!
More text from the study they are linking to bolster their argument:
"Our findings indicate that surgical masks can efficaciously reduce the emission of influenza virus particles into the environment in respiratory droplets, but not in aerosols."
COLOR ME SHOCKED. THAT'S SO WEIRD. It's almost as if it's common sense that in a laboratory setting, spitting through a mask reduces (not eliminates, lol) the chance of someone else swallowing that spit in the same room directly in front of the spitter! Holy fucking shit. Alert CNN.
More from the study that they linked:
"Among the samples collected without a face mask, we found that the majority of participants with influenza virus and coronavirus infection did not shed detectable virus in respiratory droplets or aerosols, whereas for rhinovirus we detected virus in aerosols in 19 of 34 (56%) participants (compared to 4 of 10 (40%) for coronavirus and 8 of 23 (35%) for influenza). For those who did shed virus in respiratory droplets and aerosols, viral load in both tended to be low (Fig. 1)."
Low viral load even without a mask. Weird again!
The last piece of "evidence" the chink and retard at UC
San Francisco came up with is the epidemiological data gathered from a hodgepodge mix of countries' data with faulty tests, over-reporting, under-reporting, and hospitals getting paid to associate random deaths with the deceased having any condition that falls under the auspice of "covid-related symptom" without actually testing positive for coronavirus.
Try again, but this time with actual science. The ten studies I found prior to coronavirus leftist decided to do "studies" all say the same thing unequivocally:
masks only help viral transmissions in lab settings via larger particles, but not in the real world.
This is all ignoring the obvious herd immunity angle.