Posted on 02/02/2023 9:57:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A massive international research collaboration that analyzed several dozen rigorous studies focusing on "physical interventions" against COVID-19 and influenza found that they provide little to no protection against infection or illness rates.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, is the strongest science to date refuting the basis for mask mandates worldwide.
Nearly 60% of South Korea's population has now tested positive for COVID despite nearly three years of consistent universal masking with overwhelming compliance
When will it be enough for "experts" to admit masks don't work? pic.twitter.com/LS0JF9niog — Ian Miller (@ianmSC) January 25, 2023
And of course, the CDC still recommends masking in areas with "high" rates of transmission (fewer than 4% of US counties, as Just the News notes), along with indoor masking in areas with "medium" rates of transmission (27%).
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its "temporary masking protocol" in early January was a "mandate," following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
South Korea is still requiring masks on public transport and in medical facilities after dropping COVID mandates in most indoor settings, including gyms, Monday, Reuters reported. -Just the News
According to the Cochrane study, which included the work of researchers at institutions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy and Saudi Arabia, a total of 78 studies were analyzed. Most recent additions to the meta-analysis were 11 new randomized controlled trials.
As unlisted study author Carl Heneghan - who directs the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford noted on Twitter: "Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks."
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants — Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence). — Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them "exactly as instructed."
Mainstream media overlooked red flags in the Bangladeshi mask study, which found no effect for surgical masks under age 50 and a difference of only 20 infections between control and treatment groups among 342,000 adults. -JTN
Bottom line, mask wearing "probably makes little to no difference," when it comes to influenza-like or COVID-like illnesses, regardless of type of mask used.
2/ LARGE Cochrane Rev (just published 1/30/23) of RCT data ALSO CONFIRMS NO BENEFIT of N95 masks vs. med/surg masks, in either community (n~8K) or HCW (n~8K) settings for prevention of flu-like illness or lab confirmed flu https://t.co/N4TkgI4uUR pic.twitter.com/0DCdYAPo7x — Andrew Bostom, MD, MS (@andrewbostom) January 31, 2023
We're sure the cult of Fauci will now start insisting peer-reviewed meta-analyses aren't 'the science.'
What a surprise.....
duuuuuuhhhhh
You might want to add in the word “ineffective”.
What a sad and horrific picture. Those poor babes. 😥
I still see people wearing them. Even young adults. I back away from most of them. No telling what they might have hiding, and, buried, in that nasty mask.
Because Big Daddy Government told them to, and Big Daddy Government pretty much signs their checks.
It's not complicated. Wrong? Sure. Unethical? Definitely. Complicated? No.
Just like the shots.
So this week doctors become anti-vax, and scientists become anti-mask.
They should’ve consulted us at the get-go; we had already figured out all of that.
I recall the torture of having to take physical therapy WEARING A MASK for weeks after surgery. I couldn’t breathe, and often got close to hyperventilating. Those mandate-making “scientists” are monsters.
This was what studies had said since before the covid 19 madness. Even Fauci originally correctly answered an interview question on the ineffectiveness of masks before he started lying. They are effective only in medical professional type usage and not in general public type usage for respiratory viruses.
When you look closely at the behavior of most people wearing masks...when they take it off they’re not disposing it, washing hands, and using a new one. It’s a constant touching the same mask over and over. If one is sick you’re getting germs on your hands every time you touch a mask and then spreading it by touching everything around you.
Masks stop droplets, not viruses. Something that is a barrier to something in the micro-meter range is useless when something is in the nano-meter range.
Regardless, it was plainly obvious that once everyone was wearing masks there was no difference in the transmission rates. This is another “a massive study to determine water is wet”.
Sicon :" "And why would the US medical establishment suddenly recommend masking up"
Because Big Daddy Government told them to, and Big Daddy Government pretty much signs their checks.
It's not complicated. Wrong? Sure.
Unethical? Definitely.
Complicated? No. "
blueplum :" people over 70
I’d make that people over 50 - lots of parents, grandparents and greatgran’s:
50=64 199K
65-74 249K
75-84 287K
85+ 295K "
Source :"https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ "
(My Comment): Consider the possibility of such a large number of older people dying from the vaccine, rather than from the covid virus exposure
Consider the possibility that a human modified virus was altered into a bio-weapon (first punch);
and then followed up with a fabricated, and mandated, untested vaccine (bio-weapon)(second punch)
and there you have it !
Termination of a large part of the older and elderly population !
Masking is useless and contributes visually to the panic, and the mandated supposed "vaccine" is the real bio-weapon and killer.
The two remaining questions are : Who benefits ?,.. and who owns it ?
Also consider that a lot of elderly people were just outright murdered by either being deliberately infected and /or mistreated for what they had.
Inappropriate medical treatment, vents, Remdesivir, lack of antibiotics and steroids, killed a lot of people.
Don’t forget their purposely bringing already infected into elder care facilities.
Pure evil.
Died WITH china virus, for the majority, most likely.
And, what % of those numbers would’ve survived with EARLY, actually safe and effective KNOWN preventatives/treatments.....you remember....the ones purposely smeared and banned, by our own, lying CDC?
Those *stats* are misleading, at the very least.
It’s been long known that masks aren’t effective against viruses, as only bacteria is large enough to be caught in the fibers, and breathing through bacteria-infested masks is dangerous itself unless the mask is changed every hour or two. Fauci even admitted this at first, there’s multiple videos of it.
Big Brother and Big pHARMAa used them as a symbol of fear and submission to get people to take the lethal injections. Unfortunately, so many people didn’t want to listen to the warnings.
From April 2020:
“Masks Don’t Work: a review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy”
10/2020
“Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing”
“...Dr. James Meehan, MD followed by warning that mask wearing has “well-known risks that have been well-studied and they’re not being discussed in the risk analysis.
“I’m seeing patients that have facial rashes, fungal infections, bacterial infections. Reports coming from my colleagues, all over the world, are suggesting that the bacterial pneumonias are on the rise.
“Why might that be? Because untrained members of the public are wearing medical masks, repeatedly… in a non-sterile fashion… They’re becoming contaminated. They’re pulling them off of their car seat, off the rearview mirror, out of their pocket, from their countertop, and they’re reapplying a mask that should be worn fresh and sterile every single time.”...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/medical-doctor-warns-bacterial-pneumonias-rise-mask-wearing/5725848
March 11, 2021
“Weapons Of Mask Resistance: Dr. Lee Merritt On The Occultic Nature & Fraud Of Facemasks”
2/18/22
“The Foegen effect: A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35363218/
Look long enough and pay enough and anybody can find opposite “research”. And they have and do.
Sure is a lot of conflict and just about impossible for anyone to sort out the truth. When the versions of the truth are spun, there really is no truth to be found.
The NIH threw out decades of masking research that masks don't work for viruses and then cranked out a few studies saying they do work. One of the tricks used to support masks were short duration studies that started near the peak of a covid infection wave when cases were about to head down anyway.
What one reports all depends on if they are buying or selling doesn’t it?
The only people who do not have a conflict of interest are the ones who admit that reveal their conflict of interest.
Yep. Sort of like trials when there are opposing technical experts..
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