With other factors as causes for rising #'s, I just can't buy that though case #'s are rising exponentially, that wouldn't be significantly higher without mask mandates. If the cases were growing at a 75% increase over the next few months, as opposed to a 95% increase over the next few months(without a mask mandate) then in my mind it would be worth it to maintain the mandate.(Just throwing out #'s to let you understand my position. Don't know what the #'s are and/or would be.)
If the #'s were 75% and 78-82% without them, then I would have second thoughts about the value of the mask mandate. I just don't think we can be sure which figures would be closer to the truth. Thus my support of the mask mandate.
To speak in terms of a known position of yours.(which I agree with) The hospitals ability to function and death count could immediately inundate us until we have a vaccine. Where as, the threat of the environmental climate change is not as immediate. Trying to find solutions to fight global warming that help minimize the damage, rather than resolving the problem, would not cause nearly as severe a problem immediately as the virus could.