99+% of the masks that I've seen don't filter the bug... You're on a bus with a couple of dozen people wearing the same things, and... you're all sharing it.
And the buses here NEVER stopped running during the "quarantine." And were picking up and dropping off workers at care facilities.
When you can smell the weed on the wake'n'bake who just walked into the store, and didn't get any closer to you than 10', do you really think that it is doing much?
The vaccines? They appear to be deeply flawed. If it wasn't for the hysteria, they probably would have been abandoned while still in the labs.
But you can't say that they're flawed, because that is denying science, and you MUST care, because you have to show that you care, because if you don't care, you're a bad person, and maybe even a science denier. And the "science" is no longer about data and repeatability, but about anecdotes which support your position.
And... All the while, the books are being cooked to "prove" things. At this point, I trust the Chicago Board of Elections more than I trust most of the 'Rona stats that I've seen presented.
So, why aren't all the essential workers dead?