I'm certainly not going to argue with you on any of that
, but perhaps you can help me. On the balance of probabilities, on what we know now (hedge, hedge ...), is the virus carried in transmissible amount, in 'ordinary' breath-out air? As opposed to sneezed droplets. If we sat next to each other on a park bench on a still day, and I had the virus and just sat there breathing normally, assume some of my breath must waft within your breathing range. Could I spread it?
Reason for the query is that, I hear the discussion about masks 'not being able to be worn properly by the public, and so are useless'. To me, a P2/N95 mask worn but not, say, with a proper seal around a beard or around the bridge of the nose, but catching all the direct exhalations , must be a damn sight better than no mask at all? Same with a surgical mask - it will catch direct emissions, but not the 'wafting breath'.