Rep. Thomas Massie: People are fed up with the CDC's mask mandate "pseudoscience"

We’re also fed up with the hassle about forced jabs.

Calling it "pseudoscience" is being generous.

When the Center for Disease Control (CDC) proclaimed its latest policy about masks our governor here in Oregon mandated wearing by children as school began in fall 2021.

However, the best science the CDC could provide was uncontrolled studies highlighting first such groups as 139 hairdresser clients, 382 sailors on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, 124 Beijing households, and 839 Thailand residents subject to contact tracing. All results came from observation followed by personal judgement, and none result from the mathematical disciplines used to rigorously evaluate complex environments. In the same article the CDC disparaged the 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Denmark involving 4,862 participants, which found no benefit to wearing masks to prevent infection.

The disciplines of a RCT divides participants into different groups on a randomized basis. Random assignment means that factors not specifically controlled can cancel each other out by appearing equally in both groups. One group receives the treatment (which in this case was the mask) and the other group does not. Researchers can isolate the one variable and are not able to introduce biases to produce a preferred outcome.

RCT’s are considered the highest standard for this type of research. Therefore, the most reasonable approach for the CDC would have been to consider this study as a benchmark against which others would be evaluated, including studies from other countries which found masks ineffective and even harmful.

The above represented an especially valid approach, since the first four combined citations from their May scientific brief had less than half the participants of the Danish study. The proposed approach was especially valid also because the CDC dismissed the study for involving only .001 of Denmark’s population. At the same time polls predicting the decisions of 150,000,000 voters in a national election were determined by less than1,500 participants or less than .00001.

Do Masks Work?,

https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/

Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.htm

Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm

Surgeon Shows CDC Top Evidence On Why Wearing Masks Work

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3988508/posts

Face masks for children: Both ineffective and dangerous

https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/face-masks-children-ineffective-dangerous/

All the tragic potential harms of face masks

https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/tragic-potential-harms-face-masks/

Kids Full of Life, Adults Obsessed with Death: The insanity of masking children—by the numbers

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4035214/posts

https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary?wallit_nosession=1

Well before the Center for Disease Control came out with its fraudulent policy the issues about masks were already “settled science” as far as the federal government was concerned.

One of the best insights I received about masks was from my son who went through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He was instructed that the N95 mask could be used in environments where they were likely to encounter chemical and/or biological hazards. They received instruction on a three-step procedure to follow to ensure a proper seal. After one half hour, they needed to leave the environment and put on a new mask. They were instructed that any other masks would only protect from agents carried by droplets the size of water vapor.