Masks are not a silver bullet for stopping COVID. Rather, they work to demoralize and divide society, while also putting some, and perhaps many, people at risk.

A preferred public health policy for fighting the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus — following lockdowns in popularity among statists — has been the implementation of public mask wearing. In many states governors have mandated the wearing of masks. And many members of the public, made fearful by the continual drumbeat of fear propaganda from the government and mainstream media, have taken to demanding, sometimes aggressively, that their fellow citizens cover their faces with masks. 

The public, frightened by the pandemic, generally believes masks to be a nearly foolproof method of preventing the spread of the disease. This, however, is untrue. The most popularly used and mandated masks, in fact, offer very little in the way of protection from the spread of viruses. Even the best masks, those designated N95, are not foolproof. Moreover, though mask wearing has been common not only in the United States but in many areas of Europe and around the world, the course of the pandemic has not been altered by their use. 

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