It helps to understand the germ theory of disease to answer this question. The answer is no.

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I was so grateful to have a stash of N95s when wildfire smoke drifted into our area. Never something I thought about before, living in DC

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It's also such weird framing; "stress, fear of disease, and constant worry about other people" is something I have LESS OF when I'm wearing a mask, for obvious reasons! I'm way less vulnerable to all that when masked! Obviously I'm more relaxed!

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I don't mask in public much anymore but I do at work because I probably encounter 12-15 patients per day with contagious diseases. Does it annoy some people? Have I lost patients because of it? Almost certainly. They can see Dr Gator.

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These people can’t do anything besides obsess over other people’s bodies and trying to control them. Masking and basic COVID mitigation measures in 2020-2021 (even with these people refusing) eradicated an entire lineage of influenza viruses. So, no, masking doesn’t make you more likely to get sick

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