Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public
I live in Japan and everyone here wears a mask, but more importantly, wears them properly. Many Japanese people are already attuned to wearing them during flu season, and everyone wears them if they think they are getting a cold so it&#x27;s no big deal for everyone to wear them the whole time, kids included. I&#x27;m not Japanese, but I get with the program and after a while, you don&#x27;t notice it.<p>Masks are, of course, effective. Again, if you wear them properly and constantly, and everyone wears them.<p>The people who DON&#x27;T want to wear them and who wish to make it a political act will dredge up all sorts of B.S studies and data showing that &quot;mandates&quot; don&#x27;t work and therefore extrapolate from that that masks themselves don&#x27;t work, when any examination of the scene will show 60% of people wearing them 60% of the time, noses hanging out, lifting them up to talk, only putting them on when they&#x27;ve taken a few steps into the shop etc etc.<p>Masks work. If you wish to be honest about it, you&#x27;d say &quot;They work, but we can&#x27;t get our citizens to wear them.&quot;