Posted on 08/21/2021 4:58:59 PM PDT by Browns Ultra Fan
Less than three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control published a mostly-ignored, large-scale study of Covid-19 transmission in US schools which concluded that while masking then-unvaccinated teachers and improving ventilation was associated with lower levels of virus transmission in schools – social distancing, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and forcing students to wear masks did not result in a statistically significant benefit.
“That a masking requirement of students failed to show independent benefit is a finding of consequence and great interest,” according to Vinay Prasad, an associate professor in University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. “It should have been included in the summary.”
Epidemiologist Tracy Hoeg, author of a different CDC study on Covid-19 transmission in schools said that “The summary gives the impression that only masking of staff was studied,” adding “when in reality there was this additional important detection about a student-masking requirement not having a statistical impact.”
So of course, George Mason University has mandated all students AND faculty must wear masks in class.
I think I will use this mask in class.
And yes, I have my Federal government vaccine proof card. Although I am not allowed to ask students if they are vaccinated.
(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...
Keeping Covid in the mix as an excuse to steal another election.
Follow the SCIENCE!!
Unless, it says... mask are bullshit
IF masks worked no one in Japan would ever be sick
No mask has any effect whatsoever on the spread of a Virus. Period. There have been numerous studies on this subject in the past. All with this same conclusion. Surgical Masks are designed to minimize the spread of BACTERIA in the hospital and especially the Operation Room environment. They do not ELIMINATE Bacterial Contamination but, they do reduce it.
Viruses are far smaller than Bacteria.
Plexiglas barriers in schools, workplaces, restaurants and bars actually IMPEDES the ventilation as it was designed to work.
Unless you change the ventilation to take these barriers into account you are making the spread of the virus worse.
Surgical Masks are designed to minimize the spread of BACTERIA in the hospital…
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They also protect the staff from the inadvertent spray of any bodily fluids, blood,etc, during surgery.
Loogies...
It occurs at private schools also.
Not to mention obvious to anyone with 10 functioning brain cells.
I was on an airplane today. I realized that the mask mandate is pure political theater - Most peoples’ “masks” were made of random material, many were home-made. A family with 3 young children pulled each others masks off while playing, or didn’t wear them half the time, I watched a group of old women pull theirs down every time they wanted to say a sentence to a friend. I saw one woman with a dog licking her mask/face. I watched another couple eating the entire flight with their masks on their chins.
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