"I ask you you point to refer to peer-reviewed scientific evidence and what you point to is something that is self-prefaced as being ....uh.... not peer-reviewed. Bizarre."
So obviously you still didn't read it then? It isn't original research, it's a review paper (stated right there in the title), not one of the blogs you are presenting as fact. It literally cites over 150 (that's one hundred and fifty) peer-reviewed scientific studies which have been published in actual scientific journals.
Some are: S Feng, et al., Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Respir.Medicine 0 (2020).
BJ Cowling, et al., Impact assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions against coronavirus disease 2019 and influenza in hong kong: an observational study. The Lancet PublicHeal. (2020).
T Greenhalgh, Face coverings for the public: Laying straw men to rest. J. Eval. Clin. Pract.,e13415 (2020).
Y Wang, et al., Reduction of secondary transmission of sars-cov-2 in households by facemask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in beijing, china. BMJ Glob.Heal. 5, e002794 (2020).
DK Chu, et al., Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-toperson transmission of sars-cov-2 and covid-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet (2020)
CR MacIntyre, et al., The First Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Mask Use in Households to Prevent Respiratory Virus Transmission. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 12, e328 (2008).
And over a hundred more.
Why are you so scared of masks? You could have put on and taken one off thousands of times by now.
