Let me see if I understand this. A mask effectiveness is based on things like type, correctly worn, length of time worn among other things. So, we take a wedding party of 500 people. Let's same some wear masks the whole time, some part of the time and some none of the time. Some wear them properly and others so so. According to the studies the amount of people getting covid would be no different than no one wearing masks at all? Am I understanding that correctly according to the studies?
Firstly, even the ones wearing them "the whole time" are likely not wearing them properly the whole time, and some of them will likely be wearing ineffective masks.
But no, that's not what I was saying. I'm not saying if you take snapshots of specific events you won't see a difference. I'm saying that what seems to me to be the consistent result of these studies is when you look at broader community spread, not at an individual event, there is no correlation between mask wearing and a reduction in covid spread. When does it change from "individual" to "community"? I don't know.
I also freely admit I am the furthest from an expert on reading and understanding studies and I'm relying on interpretation from biased sources. Though in this case, almost every side has come around to stating the same thing. Slate and the Atlantic are starting to sound right wing.