Yes, wearing masks is PROVEN effective to reduce covid-19 spread

NFL memo says all NFL teams to operate
under intensive COVID-19 protocols

Requirements under the intensive protocols, which 28 of the league's 32 teams
have already experienced at some point this season, include virtual team meetings
and the wearing of masks by all players and staff at all times while
at the facility, including during practice.

The league said it made the decision to impose the intensive protocols leaguewide
because of the heightened recent spread of COVID-19 around the country as well
as the data it has been collecting all year regarding close contacts.

Masks or league-approved Oakley helmet face shields

at all times

in every part of the facility,

including on the practice field.

"We're approaching, I think, desperation," Dr. Julie Watson,
chief medical officer at Integris Health in Oklahoma, said on MSNBC.
"I think we have to have our citizens helping by wearing a mask
and keeping their distance.”

Asked for her reaction to Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's continued refusal
to impose a mask mandate, Watson said,
“It is baffling to me how this has become a political issue."

"The flu isn't political, heart disease is not political, kidney disease
is not political, but somehow putting on a face covering to protect
the person around you has somehow become political,” she said.
NBC NEWS

on the practice field too

Apparently.

I don't think it applies to the players on the field participating, just to the staff and those players observing.

I could be wrong.

soon to find out

Masks mandates worked to slow the spread
of Covid-19 in Kansas, CDC research shows

CNN
While they may be unpopular in some places, mask mandates work to
slow the spread of Covid-19, according to new research published
Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

and yet no statewide mask mandate in kansas

Mask mandate spurs economic activity,
Utah study reorts

A new University of Utah study finds that mask mandates increase
consumer confidence and boost spending.

The Marrinner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis
studied thousands of counties across the United States for the report,
finding consumer spending rose in places where masks were required,
relative to counties without mask requirements.

Areas With Mask Mandates Have
Lower Covid-19 Hospitalization Rate,
Vanderbilt University Study Finds

FORBES

Covid-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee have risen at a far lower rate
in areas that have mask-wearing mandates than those that don’t,
a new analysis from Vanderbilt University researchers found,
reinforcing evidence showing that face masks play a
significant role in slowing coronavirus transmission.

You crazy lefties crack me up.

Imagine if back in March Trump said; Don't listen to Fauci, you MUST wear a mask. You would here right now showing scientific evidence from CNN, MSNBC, etc. on how mask wearing is dangerous!

You've made it all political.

And it's all the Trumpers who are spreading it.

Yet back in August hundreds of Biden voters from Washington D.C. held a huge block party during restrictions. How do we know? Only because at least four of the attendees fired over 100 rounds and killed 1, wounding 21 others. Biggest mass shooting in the U.S. this year!!!

NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC???  Shhhhh, don't say anything, It's not Anti-Trump!!! And they didn't.

 https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/10/no-answers-for-why-dc-didnt-break-up-a-block-party-that-turned-deadly/

How many more of these parties across the U.S. cities took place??? We will never know!!!

Back to the masks. I live in rural America, Trump supporter dominated. A little virus hit here in the spring (airport travel the cause) and it was quickly contained. All the "TRUMPERS" I see are wearing masks, social distancing, including myself. This fall it came hard a heavy, like most everywhere else. I live with 3/4 gated drive. Very private for wife and I. No visitors since August, even FedEx has a box they deliver to at end of driveway. No problem with thefts out here, were ALL LAW ABIDING FOLKS. Three places I've only visited; Walmart, Big box store, Indian Casino to make football bets. ALWAYS a mask, ALWAYS disinfect hands and face at my vehicle. NEVER ate in restaurants, not one visitor at my home last three months! 

And I got the RONA. Headaches, diarrhea, dizzyness from blood pressure fluctuations, tight chest for three days and then got over it. No fever. Wife had a cough and little achy, that was it. She never gets sick, always been that way.

How did I get it? Probability is it came right through that mask. In the box store one day I saw a woman cross my path 20 ft ahead of me. When I got to that point where she crossed her perfume filled my mask!  If that perfume was still there, would not the virus be there to if she had it. If the perfume slides through a mask would not the virus too??? Maybe not in water droplets, but it gets through. 

Bottom line; Masks may do some good, social distancing may do some good, BUT THEY DON'T COME CLOSE TO PREVENTING IT. THE RISE WE NOW SEE PROVES THAT. 

So stay on your soapbox, claim it's the Trumpers who don't obey "science" or at least ONLY THE SCIENCE YOU WILL ALLOW. Have your block parties all the while pointing fingers.

I'll just keep laughing. 

No, the rise we see now proves that many people aren't wearing masks :

Areas With Mask Mandates Have
Lower Covid-19 Hospitalization Rate,
Vanderbilt University Study Finds

FORBES

Covid-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee have risen at a far lower rate
in areas that have mask-wearing mandates than those that don’t,
a new analysis from Vanderbilt University researchers found,
reinforcing evidence showing that face masks play a
significant role in slowing coronavirus transmission.

Apparently a comprehension problem here.

I said "Masks may do SOME good.

THEY DON'T COME CLOSE TO PREVENTING IT. THE RISE WE NOW SEE PROVES THAT.

Apparently.

Since the title of this thread is

Yes, wearing masks is PROVEN effective to **REDUCE** covid-19 spread

Nobody I know, nor any expert I read about, has said or is saying that masks  100% **PREVENT** catching covid.

the rump lickers dont obey science . they refuse to wear masks .  masks r proven to reduce transmission .  thats the science . and as long as morons continue to refuse to wear masks there will be an upsurge in hospitalizations and deaths ---- even though some people will still get the virus even when they occaisionally wear a mask in public

i havent heard of any anyone even remotely suggesting masking fully prevents catching covid  either

The Vanderbilt analysis is the latest in a string of studies to show
that face masks play a key role in reducing Covid-19 transmission or
reducing the severity of the disease, and health experts including
Dr. Anthony Fauci have advocated for a national mask mandate as
cases continue to rise across the country.
Mask wearing has become a source of partisan controversy, however,
exacerbated by President Trump and his allies’ refusal to wear masks
or impose mask-wearing restrictions.

That's right Trump administration was as useless as four tits on a bull during this epidemic....

@UNIMAN

 I would bet 10K that you didn't get it right through the mask. I promise, even if you are vigilant with such things, that you touched your face after touching a card reader or something like that, while in a store. In theory, yes, a viron of a corona virus could pass right through a mask. Masks aren't meant to keep sub-microscopic pathogens out. Said pathogens can't fly levitate though, bro. They can't jump. The hitch a ride of spit and it's the spit that can't go through the mask. You don't wear the virus to keep the virus out per sé. You wear it to keep your saliva from flying all over the place. With that said, if you were within, say, 10 or 15 feet of an infected person, and they are hack coughing, without covering up, right in your direction. And you're facing them and breathing in deeply at the time. And you've got that senior citizen immune system ....then maybe, just maybe, you got it "right through the mask at the big box store". Otherwise, I promise you, you probably touched something then touched your face or you were in close quarters, maskless, with someone infected. The important thing is that you kicked it. My sister kicked it pretty easily and only lost her taste and smell and was slightly lethargic. And she even has asthma.

...but yeah, most viruses people pick up, rhinoviruses and the milder coronas which both cause common colds, influenzas, even at times noroviruses and such, people more commonly get these by touching their own noses and/or mouths rather that by an infected person projectile coughing the virus into you.

China, Japan, Hong-Kong, Taiwan and South Korea all exercised various degrees
of austerity in promoting widespread use of masks, particularly for individuals
who are likely to engage in interpersonal contact.
Notwithstanding that additional strategies have also been implemented –
thorough testing, effective contact tracing, mandated social distancing -
all of these countries have effectively managed risk.

Good points, Stu.

And that is the key.  I'm glad the fella survived a bout with the covid, pretty much like a bad flu to most who get symptoms.

But the point of masks -- at least the greater benefit of wearing a mask -- is not intended to protect YOU (the wearer), but rather to protect OTHERS from you - your breath and fine particle spittle (as Stu points out)

... and THEM wearing masks are what protect YOU

this has been explained over and over and over and over     but the rump lickers still dont understand

Politicizing masks is like
"politicizing the use of toilet paper"

"I think it's so unfortunate that masks have been politicized, that would be like
politicizing the use of toilet paper. I mean this is a basic hygienic measure that
is highly effective, it's cheap and it doesn't shut down the economy,"
Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of the incoming Covid-19 advisory board.

"So, if what you care about is being able to continue to go to work, have your
paycheck, all of those kinds of basic things, then you really should be working
with us, working with your family, your community,
to get everybody to wear a mask," she added.