While helpful to stop infections and droplets surgical masks don't stop particles like Covid.
Doctors and epidemiologists say otherwise. So you're wrong.
COVID-19 is primarily spread through virus-laden water droplets - even very small droplets - exhaled when an infected person breathes, sneezes, or coughs. A surgical mask works to reduce this. Even a cloth mask
helps, though obviously neither are as effective as an N95 (which forms a tight seal around your face so particles don't escape out of the sides of the mask).
And again: if you were really concerned about the lack of effectiveness on inferior masks, you'd be arguing for mandatory N95s. Instead, you want to get rid of all mask requirements. So it seems like your concern is not so genuine, and you just want to try to discredit masking.
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