Maybe because according to the cdcs report there was only a few percent difference between masked and unasked infection rates? Nevermind the report ignored conflating factors. There is not even good data that masks prevent infections in a surgical theatre, which is much more controllable than population at large<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/</a>