1: I hope not either, but in the mean time, if it works and the alternative is long covid or other forms of diseases and permanent disability, it would be a small price to pay. Plus I'm sure there will soon pop up a cottage industry of fashionable masks you can bling to your heart's content.

Maybe we'll replace masks by astronaut's helmets like in all some dystopia games, with lights inside to show our face like in SF movies (so they show the actor's face, glare be damned).