What’s the point of what?
So what you are saying is if results and data don't really show what you expect them to show, you just have to assume there are other factors in play. Because there is no way masks don't have a real impact. That's kind of what you're saying, right?
OK, what other factors might there be?
To your point though, people on "your side" have compared what we are doing to what Japan and South Korea have done in trying to make the point that their measures have worked so much better than ours. IMO, there is one HUGE factor that differentiates us and those countries, and that is obesity. According to this list, the US has the 12th highest obesity rate in the world. We are literally the fattest country in the world of any size. South Korea and Japan have among the lowest obesity rates in the world. You don't think that is the biggest factor is their COVID "success"? How many deaths would the US have if we had 15% of the fat people that we currently have like Japan and South Korea do? Given the profile of who is dying from COVID, I'd say we'd have far, far fewer deaths had we done nothing differently. I'd say we'd have far fewer deaths had we done nothing at all. Isn't that reasonable to assume.
I don't think there is that much that differentiates Florida and California. They are probably the two most similar large states in our country.