True how has the human race existed for 2000+ years without having to put a mask over our faces when been within 2 meters of another human.
yeah how did we survive not being able to smoke indoors or having to wear seatbelts. The world ended when things changed...
You mean other than all the other times people have worn masks to stop the spread of viruses? Like every year in many Asian countries. Or in 1918 when the spanish flu hit: https://www.history.com/news/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-resistance
Wearing a seat belt to protect against fatalities in a crash is abit diffrent to wearing a piece of cloth on your face for protection against a deadly virus.
They have a massive impact on the spread of the virus. Please explain to me how preventing respiratory droplets from spreading doesn't have a significant impact on a virus that spreads through respiratory droplets?
Smoking has killed more than three times as many people as covid in the same time period and yet not only have we don't the absolute bare minimum to control it but we actively attempt to profit from it. If you think that having to put a small belt in front of your body whilst in a car is comparable to having to cover your face with a mask whilst in a shop then one of us is wide of the mark
That's such a nonsense comparison though. Infection rates were already rising. You can't compare it to what it was before, because it was never going to stay as that. You'd have to compare it to the fictional scenario where we didn't introduce masks, which is impossible.