Does anyone honestly think masks do any good?

It still blows my mind people are going along with the mask absurdity.

I can forgive people for accepting lockdowns, shutdowns, even the social distancing (its actually kind of nice not having people pushing into your personal space in the store), but I will never, ever forgive them for being such complete sheep to think healthy people wearing a piece of cloth to restrict their breathing was sane, rational, or going to do anything helpful to prevent a microscopic virus from being transmitted.

The whole idea doesn't make rational sense. If the idea was to prevent an illness from flying through the air into another person's nose and mouth when someone sneezes or coughs, or even when talking, then wouldn't it be more effective to carry a handkerchief and hold it up to your mouth when you are about to sneeze, cough, or talk, without irrationally surpressing oxygen intake the rest of the time?

If the claim is that the illness constantly flies out of the mouth simply when people breathe and floats through the air and drifts into other people's mouth and nostrils, or is some new Legionnaire's Disease that gets into ventilation systems and floats through the air, then there's no reason to believe it couldn't get around the corners of the mask. If its this crafty and contagious why wasn't the transmission rate been much higher?

Even a pro-establishment study recently admitted that universal mask wearing by healthy people in everyday life was nearly statistically useless (in fact this study likely overstated mask usefulness).

The mask insanity being forced on people by governments, businesses, and busybodies in public ranks as a crime against humanity, albeit not of the magnitude of mass murder but still a crime. Its been about control, nothing more.