Actually masks can reduce the viral load an infected person spreads, but the issue is that of why COVID-19 is dangerous, which is due to the overall poor health, with almost all persons dying with it having comorbidities esp. obesity, and hypertension.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that almost 90 percent of U.S. coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized had underlying health problems, or comorbidities. As of 8–22, for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
The co-morbidities is true, but don’t forget what a big hairy stinking deal the former administration made of pre-existing conditions by using (imo) Obamacare to launch this neverending search for pre-existing conditions by severely restricting antibiotics as well as the overuse of opioids. Everybody thinks they have pre-existing conditions now.
I think Trump did us a favor by acting to close borders (like other countries did at the time, and over the hysteria of the Democrats). He also showed leadership in shutting is down for a time to give our doctors and scientists a chance to formulate effective treatments, all while the CCP was doing everything in its power to thwart this information gathering. We have been subject to an unprecedented propaganda effort by hostile nations like China and Iran, the groundwork for which was laid during the previous administrations. Our labs are now suffering all the cyber attacks that the banks and retailers were dealing with. Remember all those hacks of millions of people’s data at a time?
The thing that works for Trump is that while not wearing masks is a position most Americans don’t embrace, Trump did do the right things to buy us time to develop effective treatments, often while facing stiff headwinds from the Democrats. We have treatments, and he will recover, showcasing those treatments. I think he will have to shove the globalists into a closet and run as a populist on making these treatments available to everyone who needs them.
If the Justice Department can give us deep state butts headed for Federal prison, that would also help. The inertia of the Obama administration harmed the Clinton campaign and it can harm Biden too, but only if people can see a different approach at work. No more too big/important to fail. This too is a populist idea.