/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm a bit confused about this. Just how efficacious are wearing N95 masks? How much would the virus's spread be slowed? Yes I'm aware of the concept of flattening the curve.

I'm just saying that people seem to believe that by wearing the mask it will prevent them and others from catching the disease, that masks + distancing + testing will somehow = a cure. The people who angrily demand mask use language like "saving" the old and vunerable, which would be inaccurate. Slowing and lessening the likelyhood is the best they could hope for.

The harsh reality is it seems we have a second common cold like disease that will likely live alongside the current flu and never go away. Years and decades later we will likely have this going around.

Please /sci/ - tell me where I'm wrong?