The problem is that every study that shows that masks work is a simulation and not an actual real life experiment. And we've seen countless examples of the cases surging in the fall-winter after the mask mandates went into place in the summer.

This simple experiment will show you that surgical masks and cloth masks are bullshit: Try breathing through your mask in the cold and have someone video record you with their phone and you'll see your CO2 escape through your mask. Take an aerosol can and try spraying through a mask. And you'll see the mist go right through it.

It's the same with all the "modelling" predicting the virus spread. It's all computer models with parameters set by the experimenters. There is no real world basis for the set parameters. These models make the assumption that there is no virus seasonality. They assume that the infection fatality rate is the same as the case fatality rate. They make assumptions that the variants are like 50-70% more contagious and 30% more lethal without any real evidence of this.