You are wrong and you are close to earning the moniker you have assigned the surgeon.
The water/mucoid droplets dry on mask surfaces and then particles flake off releasing said viral particles thru anyway. Surgical masks are only good for about 2 hours for the good things they do do and then need to be replaced. N95 masks can go longer and can be used and reused for up to 24 hours assuming one hasn’t contaminated the inside of the mask from the outside. Not all covid virii are contained in droplets but some are aerosolized when breathing or coughing so the pass thru can occur directly. The seals are never truly air tight and the droplets/particles blow out the tops and bottoms of the masks anyway!
The only effective strategy is simple hand washing and smart social distancing and to quarantine oneself when one is sick. Taking some zinc and quercetin or HCQ daily(if one can get it) might be helpful in warding off an attack or squashing Covid early.
Perhaps a well placed child is needed to shame the rest of us into realizing that the emperor is truly naked.
(signed...an ICU nurse, 34 years and still working and a conservative of the most storied description!)
“The only effective strategy is simple hand washing and smart social distancing and to quarantine oneself when one is sick.”
That’s what we were doing when WuFlu reared its head. It seemed to be doing the job. When the RATs saw that they couldn’t run out the clock on the election using Covid, they kicked it up a notch. More restrictions. Masks. It only got worse. Hand washing is the big thing, IMO.