Slowly, steadily it all unravels:
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11946...tes-study-finds.html
Masks in hospitals shown to make no difference to Covid outcomes.
At the time of the pandemic there was no evidence that they were effective. Yet they were mandated. Better to be safe until we know? Perhaps (fairly feeble reasoning but perhaps...) where masks are concerned. But there was also no evidence at the time that lockdowns and other restrictions made any difference, and they cost (and are costing) lives.
We were never following any science. It was clear right from the start to layman such as myself able to read, add up and loosely reason.
It was all a pointless panic.