Have you yourself seen studies that say the negative effects are none? If so, point me to them; I've only found a few, and they all seemed flawed.
> you should be ashamed of yourself for contributing to this state of affairs.
I have no shame in defending true science against propaganda.
[1] is a blog post I wrote about masks and carbon dioxide, where I wrote a model and ran it on various parameters. The net result was always the same: there was half oxygen and half carbon dioxide behind the mask.
Dr. Anthony Fauci knew that masks were ineffective. [2]
The CDC did a study that failed to show that masks were effective. [3]
Another study showed that masks did not work. [4]
There is a review of older papers concerning masks [5] as well as a follow-up. [6] (Though I do not know the political bent of that website; the review may be cherry picked.)
In other words, there is evidence that masks don't work and that there are downsides. If masks reduce oxygen, which makes us more vulnerable to disease, and they don't work, it's possible that the masks actually made things worse, by making us more vulnerable while doing nothing.
That is why I will never feel shame for my "irrational tirade" because it's not a tirade, and it's not irrational.
[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/masks-and-carbon-dioxide/
[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-said-masks-were-not-...
[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf
[4]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v...
[5]: https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-...
[6]: https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/still-no-conclusive-evid...
