No one has ever said wearing masks keeps the wearer from contracting the virus. It helps stop the wearer from spreading the virus, hence your woeful confusion.
And there probably are dozens of doctors who buy into your political mantra. Out of the millions who don't. So your gf and family doctors don't wear masks in the operating room or covid wards? Wow. And if they do it's because the whole world's medical establishment has been brainwashed by msm? They must hate going to work.
Not gonna argue or fight with you.
I said that wearing a mask makes people who wear the mask sick. When we talk, sweat, sneeze, cough, and hiccup we release crap from our mouths. That crap is not supposed to hold onto the surface of our nose and lips. A lot of people, and this is very well known, who wear masks for extended periods of time develop certain health problems relating to sinus or respiratory ailments.
Also, wearing a mask for COVID outside is not viable and here is why. You can walk through a bunch of COVID particles floating through the air, and even though you and everyone else around you has a mask, it can still enter through your eyes or even your ears. Just how many people were told to stay indoors that resulted in many health problems. Fresh air and sunlight, along with a healthy diet and active lifestyle, significantly increase a person's chance of surviving most ailments. Furthermore, excessive hand washing and sanitizing, as been shown through countless validated research studies and articles, to actually make you sicker and more prone to illness over time.
My family friends and girlfriend of course wear a mask for work. But, and there is
CLEAR evidence at this point, wearing a mask outside does not help. Wearing a mask is more psychological, and I can understand the importance of mental health, so I'll not go further into it. I have written for my graduate studies how mindset is very powerful and people have died due to their mental state (or rather a weak mental state and either believing they're going to die or "it's over") even though they could have easily recovered or survived whatever happened to them. For example, in movies and games people think being shot you suddenly fall and die. That's not the case at all. The majority of human beings could survive, at least initially, many common shots from many common hand guns... but if someone genuinely believes that [ I got shot = I now die ] they will hyperventilate, allow themselves to go into shock, and die from a minor gun shot.
You're from California. I've worked there and visited plenty of times. A lot of people live in their own worlds and I'll leave it at that. I have never witnessed so many "open minded people" who would become aggressive and/or shut down the moment someone challenges their views and
dares to bring up facts.
Also, I'm not some right-wing Conservative lunatic. I'm pretty freakin' Liberal by most standards and accounts. I'm just tired of people believing information that isn't accurate because it makes them feel better and safer. It's dangerous and watching it unfold in the USA is horrifying since my family fled the Soviet Union about three decades ago just to see such mass manipulation and censorship start in the most "free" country on Earth.