We are going to have to Agree to Disagree about masking. (and probably a lot more)
(which I am able to do, but I have found "some people" are incapable or uninterested in it)
Your comments are full of Misinformation and I assume regurgitated Disinformation,
along with some outright Propaganda.
Like, "It is widely known that respiratory viruses cannot be filtered by surgical masks or even N95s.",
which is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. It is false and fails the "Ring of Truth" on the face of it,
which should be OBVIOUS to the point of being Self Evident if one has done ANY study and
research on the subject. You are typically taking a fairly complex issue and trying to present it as
a fallacious truth in false simplicity. ("hoping" people will skim by it and have their thinking be affected
by it without thinking about it)
(THIS IS A WELL-KNOWN Disinformation and Propaganda technique --- I don't know if you are
doing it purposely or with absence of malice, but I presume the latter as a "Benefit of the Doubt")
It is (supposedly) WELL KNOWN that Fauci, ET AL., were downplaying masks at the beginning
SIMPLY because there was not enough PPE for the medical people and he thought they should
get priority, which they should have in that INITIAL scenario. As time went on, and various situations
changed, they ALL changed what they said, and SAID WHY THEY SAID WHAT THEY DID IN THE
BEGINNING AND WHY THEY WERE CHANGING THEIR SUGGESTIONS LATER ON.
(of course, a paranoid person interprets this with typical biased and skewed "thinking" and "logic" to
bolster their confirmation bias and overly biased and skewed world view, etc.)
To not acknowledge this FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH based in REALITY is a LIE in and of itself,
to oneself and to others if it is regurgitated, and is Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda. (at best)
The information you present is typical of what I have read over and over and over and over
on hyper-paranoid "conspiracy theory" (used in a valid negative sense here) websites and forums
and social media and the like.
(like with the ridiculous "individual liberty" BS (non-) "argument", etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum)
Your logic and critical thinking skills are obviously corrupted from an EXTREMELY biased viewpoint
laced with hyper-paranoid delusions (or whatever) to the point where you cannot see the forest for the trees,
most probably due in part to PTSD-like pathology. It can be seen in the way you write, your attitudes,
"thinking", behaviors, BELIEFS, etc., along with nonsensical cherry picking of information and inability
(and probable non-desire and non-interest) to even minimally qualify and quantify your statements,
and an extreme level of certainty and surety that belies any "normal" aspects of properly identifying
problems and solutions in a real world scenario, and discussing them therein.
I don't mean to be mean, but I've seen this WAY too many times with WAY too many people
over the decades, in a variety of "forums" and scenarios. And they ALL present themselves
as you do, so it is fairly easy to identify.
Since you are "too far gone", and will most likely never be able to achieve any semblance of
the "normalcy" I assume you once had before you "went down the rabbit hole", I am mostly
presenting this for people who are not "too far gone" but sadly heading in that direction, and
so other readers may properly interpret your information and hopefully see it more my way
than yours. (that is, with actual objectivity and the like)
Sorry if I irritate, annoy, or anger, you with my "interpretation" and analysis.
But it is important for other people to have a chance to not be overly swayed or compromised by
what I think is "bad information".
Let the chips fall where they may as people decide for themselves which one of us is "more right".