COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Mr. Sparkle said
In a post-Omicron world, anything less than a K95 mask is theatre IMO. A plane (or subway car or restaurant) full of people in cloth or plain surgical masks is basically at the same risk as a plane full of people without masks. In the real world, the masks that 99.9% of the public wears are pretty much worthless.

It's like rubbing a rabbits foot but it provides the illusion of safety, so here we are.

I 100% disagree with you. I've pretty much only have been in surgical masks and I've never caught covid, even being exposed to people who had it.

That's not my only data point, but what you are saying is factually incorrect. It isn't a binary outcome. And it isn't binary risk.

And to be clear, I'm not defending plain cloth masks. But even those aren't worthless.