I'm sure by now most understand that the virus goes right through and around the surgical masks. Even the N95 filter size is not enough to prevent a less than 3um virus from passing through but the libs want to argue that "more of the water droplets will be stopped". Ok then, hand out single use N 95's in a high risk setting like a hospital. But they won't cuz they don't want to pay the financial cost for it. And because they know that proper usage is not being followed in the lay population anyways, there are so many other factors in transmission, and there is no good data to suggest that masks made a difference when used by hundreds of millions of people during COVID.
They are committed to pay lip service for the cause, but woe be to the administrator who is the first to say that the king has no clothes. At least they make people feel safer. How about a Teddy Bear next time?