over-the-counter masks, it is all consistent, is it not? we been looking at masking for decades and there s also, whether we are talking about benefit for the wearer or the surrounding people, so-called source control, very few studies of source control, they don t show any benefit and that circumstance. that the only one there is any policy things to be worried about to be concerned with for personal protection each person has a choice to wear a mask or not so that s not a policy issue. the atlantic had one really smart writer who completely debunked the study currently being used by the cdc to push masks at school saying you can t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandate from this study the public health economist at arizona state, he said the co-author of the systematic review of covid 19 mitigation policies call the