After reading this entire chain, I noticed that you keep banging the drum on facts, facts, facts. In reality, you provide very few facts and basically zero data to back up your claims - just anecdotal stories. A sampling below:
You: "I, in fact, did say that millions were in hospitals with severe sickness due to the virus. Where I 100% believe that to be the case (because it is), the confusion comes with a couple of words I left out,..." There are currently about 80,000 people total in hospitals in the entire US due to Covid. There are only around 1,000,000 total hospital beds in the US. So your "fact" that there are millions in hospital is just wrong. Just because you "100% believe" something, doesn't mean it's correct.
You: "Also, I’ve known several people who have gotten this virus. Some it didn’t affect at all. Others (even younger people), it hit VERY hard. Some wore masks, but did nothing else to help prevent it. Others (most) did not wear masks. And out of those that did not wear masks, a couple said they HAD wore masks (they later admitted they did not).
Also, this article (from....brietbart? Lolol) is based off of 154 case patients against 160 control patients. What about the other 12+ million people? " You continue to cite anecdotal and personal observations and not data. Maybe you are right that masks are effecting in stopping the spread of Covid, and there is evidence that would support that. However, there is also lots of evidence and theories that masks might not actually be all that effective. One example is the article you dismissed because it was from Breitbart. While you might think Breitbart is a bad source, the article is quoting and analyzing a CDC study (link below). https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf
You: "Several states have hospitals overwhelmed. Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, etc." There are clearly some hotspots and specific hospitals with challenges, but there is a big difference between a state's hospital system being overwhelmed and a state having a few specific hospitals with increased hospitalizations.
You: "if hospitals aren’t being overwhelmed and at capacity, please tell me why places like El Paso had to turn a convention center into an emergency site with hospital beds, why people are being airlifted out of the city because their hospitals are too full, doctors in Lubbock state that their hospitals are full and cannot take anyone else, Odessa nurses and doctors are saying they cannot afford any more hospital beds, hospitals are understaffed..." While these might technically be "facts," they can often be misleading or exaggerate an issue when presented without data or context to support. I would encourage you to read this twitter thread, it is eye opening. It shows about 12 headlines/article quotes regarding overwhelmed hospitals, flying in nurses from other locations, diverting ambulances to other hospitals, etc. They read just like articles and stories from Covid, but they are actually from 2018. Covid is clearly worse than the 2018 flu season, but this helps put Covid in context and will make you think twice when reading sensational headlines.
You did a better job than I. Thanks