Masks probably caused more health issues than they stopped. It's a perfect breading ground for bacteria and viruses. Now you gotta breath that shit in all day?
What intelligent person put a cloth mask on and said, this is it, this is all we need! It can't be real that people actually believed a cut up shirt was going to stop a virus.
Sure, they might have provided a slight reduction in spread, but they caused far more issues than helped.