> We wore them for a year. Covid is still here.

That sounds like an argument against bullet proof vests. People still die while wearing them. LEO have been wearing them for years. Obviously, they don't work.

You don't understand the actual goal of wearing masks: protected people and reducing the spread of covid. It's not going to magically eliminate covid when half the country doesn't actually wear them.

> LEO have been wearing them for years

So in other words, your expectation is that we'll be wearing masks for the rest of our lives?

Is it going to be a deadly disease without treatment nor vaccines for the rest of our lives?

Do LEO wear them 24/7 or only in appropriate situations?

And it might be a shocker to some, but there is more to life than myopically focusing on slowing the spread of exactly one disease. We have the rest of our lives to worry about. Expecting society to live a covid centric lifestyle where all that matters is “does it slow the spread” for 1.6 years and counting is does not make for a mentally healthy population.