With respect to cloth facemask, a RCT using four weeks follow up compared the effect of cloth facemask to medical masks and to no masks on the incidence of clinical respiratory illness, influenza-like illness and laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infections among 1607 participants from 14 hospitals [19].
However, a large harmful effect with more than 13 times higher risk [Relative Risk = 13.25 95% CI (1.74 to 100.97) was observed for influenza-like illness among those who were wearing cloth masks [19]. The study concluded that cloth masks have significant health and safety issues including moisture retention, reuse, poor filtration and increased risk for infection, providing recommendation against the use of cloth masks [19]."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Dr. Fauci is exercising social control over America.So is so called President Joe Biden. These Alinskyite fascists are not following science, they are extending the pandemic, which is why the use of J&J vaccine , the most effective against Covid -19 variants, has been stopped.
With a hat-tip to Steven Crowder, I use the appellative 'the former Vice President Joe Biden.'
It is a mask of obedience to the democrats.
Stanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid
https://americanconservativemovement.com/2021/04/17/stanford-study-quietly-published-at-nih-gov-proves-face-masks-are-absolutely-worthless-against-covid/
FTA: According to the current knowledge, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16], [17], while medical and non-medical facemasks’ thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440 µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger [25]. Due to the difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter (the virus is 1000 times smaller), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask