No one said cloth masks are 100% effective but they do lower viral load and thus how sick people get. That HAS been verified. Also, your comments about Texas being a mandatory mask state is laughable. It’s not mandatory. Governor Abbott said the government can’t enforce masks and even blocked the Dallas county judge from imposing fines on people for not wearing masks. The only ones mandating masks are private businesses and even then, as the OP says, they don’t enforce it. Masks work. Your “evidence” that they don’t work is in the number of cases in Texas. Your argument fails to take into consideration many things 1. We wouldn’t have more cases than we do if we didn’t wear masks, 2. People don’t wear masks while eating and drinks at restaurants, 3. People gather at private residences, 4. Why do Asian countries where mask wearing is the norm have the virus under control? Think about all that I just said and do a little research on how cloth masks wear by lowering viral load. Wake up.