I'm Not Lieing, I Am Just Really Bad at My Job

A newyork times article says that masks do work, but mandates don't. If you can touch the screen right after you poured the water still wet, it did something. But if you could argue that it worked, or that you should put screens on your roof instead of shingles, that's a sort of a bad argument. So i think when they need studies to say masks work, it did create some friction, but not enough to make a difference. And then the article hypothesises that's because people were bad at wearing their masks. Here's what i think, nobody social socially distance at home. Maybe that whole thing. What do you say? Some some say no