Posted on 05/04/2023 11:42:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
The German government’s top health officials have admitted that no evidence exists to suggest that the use of face masks was effective during the pandemic.
Pressure has been mounting on Germany’s Health Ministry to provide evidence that supported the nation’s mask mandates.
Until now, health officials have refused to provide studies that show masking helps stop the spread of Covid or similar viruses.
However, Bundestag Vice-President Wolfgang Kubicki has just used his parliamentary prerogatives to put a question to the Health Ministry and compel officials to answer.
Kubicki demanded to know what study results the Ministry could cite to demonstrate the efficacy of face masks.
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach was forced to admit that his team has never seen any evidence to support masking.
Lauterbach’s team argued that”nobody really knows what effect masks really have.”
This is because “the effectiveness of individual measures… cannot be examined in isolation, but only in conjunction with the other measures in place at any given time,” Lauterbach claims.
Health Ministry officials were unable to provide a single shred of evidence.
The revelation comes after governments around the world forced kids to masks for hours on end in school.
Officials, quoting “the science,” were left to run wild imposing arbitrary mask mandates on airplanes and public transport, events, and clinics.
However, there was never any evidence of whether it did anything.
According to the response from Lauterbach’s team, there were never any plans even to find out if it was effective.
Suddenly all that manic masking enthusiasm has just evaporated.
The response comes several weeks after Dr. Anthony Fauci’s troubling statement to the New York Times.
Fauci, Democrat President Joe Biden’s former chief medical advisor, was an effective public advocate of masking.
At one point, he appeared on national TV and told the public to wear two masks at a time rather than just one.
“So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” Fauci told NBC News’s TODAY in January 2021.
“That’s the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.”
Now Fauci is trying to walk back his comments.
“At the population level, masks work at the margins, maybe 10%,” Fauci told the NY Times.
This is itself a baseless claim that Fauci provided no evidence to support.
But it’s another important walk-back of the doctrines that medical bureaucrats have been spinning about masks since 2020.
I have tried for an hour to find any other article to confirm this and have failed.
Anyone find any other news outlet mentioning this Vice president demanding this Info?
Every once in awhile I still see some fool in a car, alone, wearing a mask.
You have to wonder what kind of demons live in these people to kee them in fear.
My wife and I were in a crowded Houston Costco last week and the only 3 people wearing masks were wearing down around their necks. I asked my wife if they weren’t wearing them over their nose in a crowded checkout line, then where were they wearing them?
In their car on the way home?
I just saw that today...again. No one else in the car.
Same here. At first, I gave them the benefit of the doubt, thinking maybe they're going a short distance to another locale, but every once in a while I see them on the highway. Here in the office, the ones still wearing masks are asians and older blacks.
Thanks for the link
Isn’t strange that none of the big establishment media are running the story.
Effectiveness of Face Masks in Preventing Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00637-20
EXCERPT:
We found that cotton masks, surgical masks, and N95 masks all have a protective effect with respect to the transmission of infective droplets/aerosols of SARS-CoV-2 and that the protective efficiency was higher when masks were worn by a virus spreader. Importantly, medical masks (surgical masks and even N95 masks) were not able to completely block the transmission of virus droplets/aerosols even when completely sealed.
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