But the purpose of masks, in either sense, adds up to the same thing; to reduce the spread of covid overall. But case rates in England over the last weeks has been more than 20% better than Scotland and NI. With all the mask free gathering in nightclubs, pubs, restaurants, sports events, etc. that has gone on in England wouldn't you think, if masks were such an important factor, that those stats would be at least closer, if not reversed?you are conflating infection control procedures for protecting the wearer with fabric face coverings to restrict the spread of virus from the wearer