Bastards sent an "amber alert" for mandatory mask usage

Opinions of individual "experts" or politicians aren't any substitute for science. Again, there's a society on earth that has worn masks on a day to day basis for years, and none of those concerns have ever seemed to come to fruition.

I think the better argument is not one of "masks don't work" it's one of striking a balance. Or in other words, this is a disease with a high asymptomatic ratio and a fatality ratio of slightly less than one half of one percent. Blanket mandates don't factor in individual concerns and issues, and don't factor uneven risk into equations. Targeted mandates (in some cases, more extreme, but highly targeted) are probably far more effective. Then, the balance also has to enter the equation with any of these mandates; our government needs to be realistically estimating costs to education, mental health, suicides, and economic loss, and strike a reasonable balance.