I should have said support instead of agree. What I mean is that you hold up the opinions of science and doctors who say what you believe as solid fact. You support them.
This guy, who you obviously do not agree with, is still a far more qualified individual than you in the realm of medicine considering his education and licensing credentials in comparison to your lack of them. He has made his own informed opinion, similar to Baron, who you also do not agree with, and yet you are obviously not in any way going to support them.
You have your opinion, and no matter what Baron says, you will not be swayed. I can understand you discounting his opinion a little since he is just someone who claims to be a doctor on a message board, and you apparently have two doctors who you can speak to, who I would imagine you trust far more than a message board doctor who you cannot verify.
However, this guy in the article is obviously a real doctor, and you seem to me to be rather gleeful that his licensed was pulled. His opinion is better than yours, regardless of where you got yours from, because he is actually a doctor, and his opinion is that masks are useless.
You ignored the statements I made in my original post, that he did require masks for people who were showing actual symptoms, which is far more than anyone would have required of flu patients, and that it would have been acceptable in any other situation other than the Covid craze.
You continuously bring up this MIT report, but I have serious doubts as to if you actually read it or have any idea of anything in it other than the "order of magnitude" that you continuously spout about. I did read the study a few weeks back when you posted it again, and with an N95 mask that is properly fitted, sure, it could significantly reduce the spread of Covid if everyone wore one properly. As I recall the study did not test someone wearing a mask, just the materials used in masks, which should have been a huge red flag for you as to how much that study actually means. It means jack and shit honestly. No one wears a mask properly, most especially these double layered cloth ones. They are ill-fitted, and most people that I see wearing them don't even cover their nose half the time, or remove them to talk to people because they are muffled. I would like to see the numbers from the study that correlate to usage like that, you can look, but I don't believe that they are there. If anything the study showed more that those types of masks really are a placebo, because they really had little benefit in comparison to the N95, and no one wears them properly.
I'm not a medical doctor though.