My theory is the masks are responsible for much of the spread and spikes of COVID and the variants.

Their claim is that masks stop some of the virus from getting through, so it is wise to use them, since it will assist in limiting the impact of COVID. But if we grant them that truth, then we have to assume the virus is being trapped on the cloth masks, when people are breathing in while encountering a person who is infected.

So wouldn't it stand to reason that when a person with this layer of viral contamination (on the outside of the mask) talks to another person and breathes around them, that it would cause them to reintroduce the virus to that person, and infect them?

For instance, Jane talks to Bob (who is infected) and her mask traps some of the virus from being breathed in. She then talks to Sue (and breathes around her), which sends a portion of the virus on the mask airborne again, and Sue becomes exposed.

Instead of the virus being expelled in the few breathes on the walk from Bob to Sue, it stayed on the surface of Janes mask and spread around in the moist breathes she breathed, as she walked around.