Posted on 12/02/2022 9:25:23 AM PST by Jayster
The CDC took nearly two years to formally recognize distinctions between masks for mitigating COVID-19 spread, finally saying in January that cloth masks offer "the least" protection and N95 respirators, which meet strict federal standards, "the highest."
The agency's slight nod to the largely symbolic value of cloth masks, predominantly worn in school settings, followed months of calls by onetime White House COVID advisers, among others, to promote masks actually designed to stop aerosolized transmission. It also spurred a run on N95s, sending prices skyward.
But a new peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trial (RCT) of N95s versus surgical masks, considered the midrange of protection, is undermining the late federal pivot to higher-quality masks and calls to reimpose mask mandates in schools, among other settings.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Stop the insanity!
“Trust the science.” Oh wait, never mind.
Next topic... Global Warming. If they got the pandemic (masks, vaccines, etc.) wrong maybe there is a chance that they don’t understand Global Warming.
If they got the pandemic (masks, vaccines, etc.) wrong maybe there is a chance that they don’t understand Global Warming.
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They understand one thing: POWER.
They make progressives feel safe.
“ Masks DONT WORK!!!”
It depends on what you want them to do. Why do you think they insist on school children wearing them. It has NOTHING to do with covid and EVERYTHING to do with indoctrination and forced compliance. This generation is being groomed to do strictly as they are told by the government. We who would fight will be gone, and there will be a nation of obedient sheep. At least I think that is the plan.
In California a doctor could go to jail for discussing this.Its not about health its about compliance and probing psychological boundaries.
It has NOTHING to do with effectiveness in addressing their latest manufactured "crisis".
For decades, they were never referred to as a respirator. A respirator at least has a silicone rubber face piece and filter cartridges or can be a fresh air supplied type. N95 masks have been called dust masks though the more official name was particulate mask.
Come covid, even 3M changed all their literature on N95 masks to suit the new definition and use cases. Prior to that, it was plainly stated that they had no medical use.
Kaiser Permanente did the heave lifting of promoting masks among the public. What is their opinion on the study?
Not mentioned in the article are the long term effects to the immune system due to masking, school shutdowns, social distancing and self isolation. I suspect that the immune system is weaken when not exposed to a wide range of bacteria and viruses. Constant exposure to the real world is fundamental to human existence. That is both physical and psychological. I won’t even mention that COVID experimental gene therapies, also incorrectly called vaccines, may also weaken the immune system.
but see...the virus is attached to MASSIVE water droplets....and the cloth filters that RIGHT OUTTA THERE!
Ping
Sorry, but you have to be an idiot to have believed that ANY of that nonsense was useful. You also had to be incredibly naive and gullible to believe that they were anything but a means to exert control over formerly free people.
In his book "Dune", Frank Herbert wrote, "Fear is the mind killer."
We've seen the proof of that for the past two and a half years. People rendered utterly stupid and irrational by fear, created by the "experts" they so blindly trusted.
It’s a particulate mask. It’s not even close to a respirator, that’s another bullshit reworked definition.
Here’s the test to see if it works. Put it on and sit in a small room with a bunch of people who eat at Taco Bell everyday. Yeah, it ain’t going to filter out a virus.
To the best of my knowledge OSHA will not approve the use of an n95 mask in an environment with volatile fumes.
About all of these measures you mentioned protecting you, they are effective if somebody tries to hawk a loogie in your face. That’s about it.
Japan versus US re masks and Covid 19:
High mask-wearing rates have seemingly not made a difference in Japan, where infection rates are substantially higher than those in the less-masked U.S. despite far less COVID testing in the former.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fi4i6h3UAAAbrOs?format=jpg&name=medium
They make spoon fed thinkers feel safe.
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