I'll debunk your nonsense for the second time, but really, you should try actually reading the study rather than just skimming the abstract and assuming it fits your narrative.
Cloth masks (the type most people are told to wear) are much worse at stopping infection than when people are free to wear what they want when they want and often wear nothing at all (aka 'non-compliance').
That's not what the trial shows,
at all. It shows that medical masks are better than cloth masks. That's all. The control arm of people who are "free to wear what they want" as you put it only had 2 people out of 458 who wore no mask at all. I'd hardly call that "often wearing nothing at all".
Put on your thinking cap and see if you can follow this: One group wears medical masks. One group wears cloth masks. One group wears one of cloth masks, medical masks, or nothing. They go maskless more than the other groups.
Now, the cloth mask people had the worst outcome as far as getting sick. Your only argument might be that the amount of time the control group people were wearing medical masks was so protective that it overcame the different and greater threat of maskless vs. cloth. That's a stretch (if not mathematically impossible) given the relative differences in the three groups.
I would have gladly volunteered to be in the deliberately maskless group if it were 'ethical' to have such a group, but then I have a functional immune system and have not been scared shitless about a
coronavirus which my chances of dying from are about 0.001% This study was before the plandemic of course, so I'd have to adjust. If I was working in a ward with, say, TB, then I would use a mask due to the way that particular bacteria is spread in that particular disease. Masks do have their place...it just isn't with aerosolized virus spread over a long duration.
In all groups (cloth, control, and N95)
N95 masks were not studied in this trial, at all. In fact, the three people who did wear a N95 were actively excluded.
Congratulations on finding a bonafide error for a change. I should have said 'medical masks'.
the 'protection' is pretty poor at stopping jack actually.
It is impossible to make this claim based on this trial since there was not a "no mask" control group. You are speculating based on nothing at all.
We are all still waiting with baited breath for the massive catastrophe you guys promised in Texas and Florida on account of their governors inviting the peeps to throw the mask in the trash and start living as humans again. What gives?