Logical fallacy. The conclusion does not necessarily follow from the premise.
Italy didn't mandate masks till they started easing lockdown measures after the death rate had been rapidly descending. After mandating mask use the daily deaths in Italy continued to plummet till the daily death curve was flattened. And it remained flattened for many weeks. Only recently has there been a slight up tick in deaths & even more strict mask measures were recently put in place.
Italy experienced most of its damage in the very early pandemic. Since then it has been largely a success story due to lockdowns, etc.
Italy has a much older, hence more immune compromised, population than Sweden.
Italy also has fewer people living alone than Sweden does.
Italy also has more multigenerational families living together.
Italy also had many from China & Wuhan arrive in Italy in the early pandemic.
Italy also had a hug a chinese campaign in the early pandemic.
If Sweden were moved to where Italy is, practiced their Sweden no lockdown strategy there under the same health conditions as Italy, they would have had 10 times more deaths than they do now.
italywise.com
I'd bet that Spain is much the same story as Italy.
1) Logical fallacy. The conclusion does not necessarily follow from the premise.
2) The rise in infections could be due to many other variables, such as people returning to school, more acting irresponsibly, more staying in higher risk environments such as indoors as the weather gets colder, etc,. In fact the rise could be even worse without masks being used.
And probably would be, because the scientific evidence says masks work. That's why in almost every nation on earth they are either mandated or recommended as per health experts instructions
3) Then why is it that Asian nations that use masks fared much better than Western nations that didn't use masks. Based on that info & your simplistic way of reaching conclusions, you should conclude that masks are working. But that would contradict your conclusion that masks aren't working. Can both be true, masks are working and masks aren't working?
4) The Ontario chart re infections shows that the daily numbers continually go up and then go down. So do you conclude that masks work on the days that infections went down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ont...rome..69i57.6877j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8