If you cough or sneeze & don’t have anything in front of your mouth the particles disperse much further than if you had something there, even if it’s just a cloth mask. Some people spit (urgh) when they talk & a mask of any design would help contain this a bit. That was my understanding of why people are being asked to wear them rather than them being some sort of filter
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So as people spit into the mask more and more the fabric of mask becomes a bacteria soaked muzzle. Eventually you get respiratory infections from wearing the mask for prolonged periods
I have to wear a mask at work all day (Hospital Pharmacy). It isn’t comfortable but I have had neither covid nor respiratory problems & I have patients with both. We change the masks regularly. Me wearing the mask is also to help protect the patients & fellow staff from any germs that I may have. This is obviously different to day to day life as it is a clinical setting but if it assists in stopping the spread, or some of it, in hospitals (which was rife before the compulsory mask wearing procedures came in to force) then it makes sense that it could help in non-ventilated high traffic places.
You're making my point for me. People outside of well vented places like a hospital and improperly wearing masks are more likely to get other maladies.
It's doing nothing more than creating a false sense of security.
Herd immunity is the only way this thing will go away.
This picture below is from the inside of a hospital room.
They did not make your point for you. You just seem to like grasping.
They even pointed out how it can help in high traffic areas. Read before you strawgrasp.
Maybe speak to all the many many many health workers and others who wear masks 12+ ours a day. They do not have issues with these infections you speak of. You can also clean many masks types which is what people do, like anything else they wear.