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The Science is Conclusive: Masks and Respirators do NOT Prevent Transmission of Viruses
SOTT Signs Of The Times ^ | April 20, 2020 | Dr. Denis G Rancourt, PhD

Posted on 06/26/2020 8:50:20 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge

(excerpt copied from this article)

Conclusion regarding masks that do not work

No RCT study with verified outcome shows a benefit for HCW or community members in households to wearing a mask or respirator. There is no such study. There are no exceptions. Likewise, no study exists that shows a benefit from a broad policy to wear masks in public (more on this below).

Furthermore, if there were any benefit to wearing a mask, because of the blocking power against droplets and aerosol particles, then there should be more benefit from wearing a respirator (N95) compared to a surgical mask, yet several large meta-analyses, and all the RCT, prove that there is no such relative benefit. Masks and respirators do not work.

Precautionary Principle turned on its head with masks

In light of the medical research, therefore, it is difficult to understand why public-health authorities are not consistently adamant about this established scientific result, since the distributed psychological, economic and environmental harm from a broad recommendation to wear masks is significant, not to mention the unknown potential harm from concentration and distribution of pathogens on and from used masks.

Physics and Biology of Viral Respiratory Disease, and why masks do not work

In this case, public authorities would be turning the precautionary principle on its head.

(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: april2020; coronavirus; government; masks; oldnews; tyranny
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Years from now history will show the entire civilized world did not die from a virus but self destructed of madness brought on by a strong flu bug.


21 posted on 06/26/2020 9:22:30 PM PDT by JParris
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Wow, this article really triggered the Karens.


22 posted on 06/26/2020 9:23:15 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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To: EnglishOnly

English, your statements without evidence, proof, or even reference mean nothing at all. You must do better than that to convince anyone.


23 posted on 06/26/2020 9:28:18 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my grandchildren.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Yes.


24 posted on 06/26/2020 9:29:37 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Coming soon! New study shows the majority of masks have more germs than a toilet seat.


25 posted on 06/26/2020 9:29:44 PM PDT by robel
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To: CatOwner
Much more likely the clothes will not be re-worn until they have been washed, while the masks are constantly being reused (among other improper mask usage).

Who the heck does not wash their mask regularly? Come on. What, you were your socks several days in a row? You are just being silly.

26 posted on 06/26/2020 9:31:12 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: EnglishOnly
Wearing a Mask is effective, and very much worth the effort.

Nope.

27 posted on 06/26/2020 9:33:07 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: CatOwner

[...while the masks are constantly being reused (among other improper mask usage).”

I have spent the better part of the last two and a half weeks in an acute ICU environment. Even within the hospital, some wear mask properly and at all times, while an equal number do not.

Patients do not wear masks.

I saw all manner and likes wearing the mask incorrectly. I was among them at times.

No man has a responsibility, to me, to wear a mask. If you wear a mask it’s most definitely not for me.

Nor do I have any such mask-responsibility to you.

If you are at risk, it is YOUR responsibility to keep your self protected. This economy delivers prescriptions, pizzas and groceries to your front door; if you are at risk, don’t TAKE the risk.


28 posted on 06/26/2020 9:34:04 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: BenLurkin

Some of them look like jock straps to me.


29 posted on 06/26/2020 9:34:51 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Grandpa Drudge; EnglishOnly

English, your statements without evidence, proof, or even reference mean nothing at all. You must do better than that to convince anyone.


Agree.

And....your own ‘set of facts’ don’t count ;-)


30 posted on 06/26/2020 9:35:10 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Fai Mao

Residents of Hong Kong wear masks due to the smog.

For instance, a while ago a guy over there decided he was going to take an ultralight and fly it into some off limits grounds. Once airborne he quickly got lost due to visibility being so poor.

Everyone realizes you can see the smog there from space right?


31 posted on 06/26/2020 9:35:18 PM PDT by walkingdead (By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
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To: EnglishOnly

Ok Karen.

Show me the science where ANY mask or respirator can filter out ALL particles at or below 0.125 microns in size.

Spoiler alert: None exist.

That is why all agencies dealing with this virus require supplied air.


32 posted on 06/26/2020 9:36:12 PM PDT by datura
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To: Bshaw

Very well said


33 posted on 06/26/2020 9:36:29 PM PDT by walkingdead (By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“Who the heck does not wash their mask regularly?”

My Trump 2020 mask sits in my car. If I need it, I grab it. I plan to wash it in 2021.


34 posted on 06/26/2020 9:36:29 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Fai Mao

Nice try - this virus is a proven aerosol.


35 posted on 06/26/2020 9:38:15 PM PDT by datura
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To: Fai Mao
Well, here is a scientific study in Japan

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/

Conclusion: Face mask use in health care workers has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in terms of cold symptoms or getting colds. A larger study is needed to definitively establish noninferiority of no mask use.

36 posted on 06/26/2020 9:38:32 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my grandchildren.)
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To: walkingdead

I lived in HK for 15 years.

They wear mask when they are sick. Not for air pollution.


37 posted on 06/26/2020 9:39:29 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: datura

In this case, aerosol means it is contained on tiny droplets of mucus or saliva. It doesn’t mean a pure virus.


38 posted on 06/26/2020 9:40:38 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: Fai Mao
Anecdotally:

Fauci don't like that word.

Look at Hong Kong. The population wear mask, use distancing, and disinfectants on floor mats when you enter a building. The closed the borders to China (And everywhere else) They’ve had fewer than 200 deaths in a city the size of NYC and that is even more crowded.

New York has had compulsory masks for months. How did that work out?
South Dakota entirely optional masks. They have one of the lowest infection and death rates on the planet.

39 posted on 06/26/2020 9:41:07 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Grandpa Drudge

While I am skeptical of the protection against being infected when wearing the masks, especially by the untrained, there are some weird definition things stated here.


40 posted on 06/26/2020 9:41:40 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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