You're confused. According to all the punditry, any "peril" will be faced by the people who come into contact with the maskless me, not me: "Masks protect others from catching coronavirus from you," as they say. Still, as I'm fully vaccinated and I feel well, I suppose I'm probably one of the 99 in every hundred people who are supposed to wear masks pointlessly. We can't go on like this. The people who are truly imperilling you in your country (less so in mine, though they're there) are the tens of millions of vaccine-refusers. They're my target too. Keep pushing masks, though, and we'll be wearing them forever. If coronavirus is here to stay, which I suppose it is, that's what will happen.

As for the science, there isn't any that can get over even a low bar, and I've looked and looked, begod. There can be be no controlled experimentation, and confounding factors are rife and irremovable.