COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I thought this same thing up until about a week ago. Can you post sources of studies that show that the bolded part is true? There seems to be a lack of evidence for this line of thinking and is exactly why the Surgeon General was initially saying masks do not work. I thought he was incorrect at first but it appears the guy actually knows what he's talking about.

Here is a link to an article that talks about some current research. The conclusions are that masks really don't do much of anything.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.li...ks-effective-reducing-coronavirus-spread.html
I haven't read the article or studies, but it just seems like anything that is used to cover the mouth / nose area would have some impact on the amount of particles and distance they're traveling when you breathe out. This just makes sense to my mind.