No, Nazis never learn lessons! They just keep being Nazis when an opportunity presents itself........
Oh I beg to differ. The mask mandates accomplished quite a bit. Destruction is progress among today’s democrats.
Old, old news. WHO/CDC helped fund definitive studies in SEast Asia back in 2015. Hundreds of med folks (docs, nurses — they know how to wear masks) in dozens of med facilities (where use can be watched). Cloth masks block <5%of infected aerosols while N-95 <half.
This was openly published on the WWW late in 2019 — but pooh-pooed. It was even ridiculed on this site ‘cause the guy who pointed it out was a Canadian.
The CCP made the masks and profited by their use. All who mandated them got paid off.
“The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the Covid pandemic...”
And 70 of those studies had already been conducted before COVID. That’s a huge amount of research on a topic, when you consider that we are approving most drugs with just two or three trials. So we already knew without any doubt that masks did not work, before they imposed the mandates.
Yeah, well as soon as someone says "expert", you can be absolutely certain that what follows is wrong, or an outright lie.
Vindication ought to be enough?! Really?! For people who lost their jobs, livelihoods, and/or businesses as a result of all of the "COVID" policies and mandates? I don't think so. A lot of people - "experts", bureaucrats, politicians, etc., need to lose their jobs and in many cases, go to prison, for their parts in this entire nightmare fraud called "COVID".
Vindication they already have, retribution is what is still owed.
They did something. The accomplished a lot. For example, a huge increase in speech impediments among young children. Also mental health problems in children. Not to mention increased upper respiratory infections across the board from breathing through filthy masks. This is what the Deep State wanted. Mission accomplished.
The masks absolutely did something. They helped keep everyone in a state of fear and submission.
We have criminal government voted in by stupid people.
Masks matter a lot less than whether one is obese, diabetic, old and in poor health — against any virus, disease, pollution, injury, and calamity.
That is what the bureaucratic/autocratic minds missed entirely — as is their wont.
But the simple minded people working in the media and education can’t discriminate anything of significance anymore — and that is why they rightly need to be ignored.
This article was referring to the following study confirming what we knew before, during and after the pandemic.
• Meta-analysis and systemic review finds that wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness (laboratory‐confirmed or not) compared to not wearing masks; moderate‐certainty evidence (Cochrane Database Systematic Rev. 2023;1:CD006207. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6). The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. The use of a N95/P2 respirators compared to medical/surgical masks probably makes little or no difference for the objective and more precise outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza infection (RR 1.10, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.34; 5 trials, 8407 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). We included 11 new RCTs and cluster‐RCTs (610,872 participants) in this update, bringing the total number of RCTs to 78. Six of the new trials were conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic; two from Mexico, and one each from Denmark, Bangladesh, England, and Norway.
Considering the Veterans Administration hospitals still require a mask for admittance, I'd say it'll be a while yet.
Scott Morefield
CNN’s
@smerconish
confronts Dr. Fauci with the latest evidence that masks, even N95s, made “no difference” in the pandemic. Fauci responds by basically conceding that point while adding the nonsensical claim that masks work on an “individual basis,” or something.
Smerconish ends the interview by asking whether going forward we should just “protect the most vulnerable and allow others to lead their normal lives,” essentially what the authors (
@DrJBhattacharya
,
@MartinKulldorff
,
@SunetraGupta
) of the Great Barrington Declaration asserted in 2020. Fauci ducks the question entirely, but doesn’t attempt to refute it.
https://brownstone.org/articles/author-of-cochrane-mask-review-responds-to-fauci/