Because of Covid science has proven masking is a waste of effort and resources. If you disagree you should really research the latest studies.

Here is a great starting point from 2021. https://brownstone.org/articles/studies-and-articles-on-mask...

They are a failure. Globally. https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Global-Failure-COVID-Mandate...

One of the largest peer-reviewed European studies says... "These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage." https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-ma...

Why? Because they are ineffective and were only introduced as a way to busy or "pacify" the masses.

He mentioned masks because the article itself uses masks as an example of a belief the author claims is false, as cited in the post above.

By the way, lots of people believe masks don't work. You can line up places that differ only by mask mandate status and observe that the case curves are the same. There are many situations like that, but in theory you only need one to disprove the claim that mask mandates (always) work. The case against masks is made by Ian Miller in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Global-Failure-COVID-Mandate...