Posted on 02/05/2023 9:17:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Cochrane Review's latest examination of a plethora of masking and other Covid intervention studies conducted before and during the Covid-19 pandemic should put the final nail in the coffin of the belief that widespread masking could have altered the trajectory of the outbreak.
The analysis, which examined 78 studies featuring more than a million people around the world, found that community masking made "little to no difference" to either Covid death or infection rates.
From the section on "Medical or surgical masks":
Ten studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no mask in the community studies only, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu‐like illness/COVID‐like illness (9 studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 13,919 people). Unwanted effects were rarely reported; discomfort was mentioned.
Four studies were in healthcare workers, and one small study was in the community. Compared with wearing medical or surgical masks, wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (5 studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu‐like illness (5 studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (3 studies; 7799 people). Unwanted effects were not well‐reported; discomfort was mentioned.
Writes Prasad: "Here is the big summary finding. With 276,000 participants in RCTs or cluster RCTs, masking does nothing. No reduction in influenza like or Covid like illness and no reduction in confirmed flu or COVID. That’s stone cold negative. See those effect sizes and confidence intervals."
People need to read the Cochrane review on masking. In this post, I summarize the key findings, and explain why so many people lied. Important to set the historical record right.https://t.co/KSW4w7rntC— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) February 2, 2023
Professor Francois Balloux, who teaches computational biology at University College London, described the Cochrane Review as the "gold standard in evidence-based medicine" in a tweet last week.
Cochrane reviews are the 'gold standard' in evidence-based medicine. They follow a rigorous methodology and only consider high quality evidence. As such, the review included a limited number of studies and has moderate power to detect small effects.
2/— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) January 31, 2023
As I've written on this site more times than I can count, if masking worked to limit the spread of Covid-19 or any other highly contagious respiratory virus, it would be blatantly obvious because high masking areas would have discernably different infection rates than low masking areas. They never did, and now the scholarly evidence continues to confirm this.
In any kind of sane world, an analysis like this would end the debate for good. But sadly, we're dealing with Covidian cultists to whom evidence means nothing.
COVIDIAN CULTISTS
to Whom Evidence means NOTHING.
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HEY
I didn’t say It.
If only this had not been known for the past 100 years or so.....
Norfolk Naval Shipyard once again requiring masks due to high COVID transmission levels
This won’t stop the mediots from pushing this nonsense.
You don’t want ugly people walking around with masks?
ugly people walking around with masks
Makes Covidiots easily identifiable.
bttt
The sheep aren’t wearing masks for protection. They wear masks to display obedience.
Just like Fauxi said ... before he started lying two weeks later.
“ The sheep aren’t wearing masks for protection. They wear masks to display obedience.”
And to demonstrate their allegiance to their party who they consider to be intellectually superior to you and yours. Period!
Sheeple will be sheeple. Human nature among some. The weak need to be culled.
The analysis, which examined 78 studies featuring more than a million people around the world, found that community masking made "little to no difference" to either Covid death or infection rates.
For the Branch Covidians, no amount of facts can make a difference. They will defend the masks, the lockdowns, and the vaxes with their dying breath.
For some it’s virtue signaling, showing off their moral superiority because they are doing it just in case it turns out they really do help, then it’s proving how much they care for you.
For others, it’s purely out of fear. I cannot fathom living in such paranoia and bondage to fear that I would live like that even as far as wearing a mask while driving alone in a car with the windows rolled up.
For others, I guess it’s just a security blanket.
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There will always be people that believe that general masking orders will work as long as there are people that believe second hand smoke is dangerous.
My nearby Kroger is located near a 2-lane country road and I consistently see 20% wearing masks - inside & in parking lot...and mostly 20-somethings with a smattering of older seniors.
Those are the reasons I attribute to mask wearers also.
Virtue signaling, fear, or a security blanket sums it up pretty well.
The insane cultists had a complete meltdown when I pointed out that no, a cloth mask over your face is not going to do anything to stop transmission of something as tiny as a virus.
They still cling to that belief and will cling to it as long as they live and breathe.
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