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The virus goes right through a mask that is not made from a solid. It doesn't care about masks.

If you're suggesting that masks are effective as spit catchers I will certainly agree.

If you're asserting that aerosolized droplets containing coronavirus are too large to pass through a cloth mask or surgical mask, the evidence is strongly contradictory.

It's a matter of time, distance, and saturation/tipping point of the viral load.  There's a certain point where enough of the virus has escaped the infected's mouth and nose, and built up around him, that exposure is inevitable.

Spend 15 minutes within 6 feet of even a person that's wearing a cloth or surgical mask, and you are within a cloud of virus that has escaped the mask and has reached a saturation level sufficient to infect you.

The virologists have been very clear on this time/distance calculation for over two years now.  The masks are irrelevant at that time/distance.  It's a cloud in the air around an infected person. The evidence confirms this, especially with the most recent strain.  Scores of thousands of people are being infected regardless of mask wearage.  Both my son and daughter were, at school.  My wife was, at work.

What about exposure on say an elevator for less than a minute?

Virologists say this is an unlikely scenario for transmission. 

Now if you were both unmasked and an infected person spit into your mouth on an elevator, I'd think the chances of transmission would increase.

I've seen numerous occurrences of masks not preventing infection when space was close and duration > 15 minutes.  Which is exactly how we've been told this thing spreads for the past 2.5 years.

You can continue to believe in the effectiveness of masks if you want.  I don't.  Time and distance are what matters.

In fact, the sole reason I got COVID from my wife, is because her mask and her patient's mask failed to stop the transmission a few days earlier.

If they're not going to stop my kids from getting it at school and they're not going to stop my wife from getting it at the office, then I can't consider them "effective."  Not even partially effective.  They failed utterly and completely to do, what they were intended to do.

At this point any further masking requirement is silly and is more about virtue signaling than health.

But like I said before, if for some reason our schools started requiring them again, my kids would be fine with it.   They'll manage.

I see no evidence they've been 20% effective.  Their failure rate is 100%.