Listen to your own link by Dr. Fauci. The first thing Fauci says is that Masks are important to prevent spread from someone who is infections. And he is concerned about medical masks being available for health care workers.
I want the reopenings to be successful. We need to nip this virus in the bud. And masks will help do this. It's not a permanent thing. And people with medical conditions or kids 2 and under shouldn't wear them.
We could have nipped this virus in the bud if people like you, and the leftist media, and the democRats hadn't spent the last two months telling us incessantly that we are all going to die, the ER's will all be overwhelmed, and everyone should hide under their beds like you do.
Oh, of course! Anyone who declares something different than the talking points of The State is a "quack." Danny, if you want to wear a mask and believe that you're doing the planet a favor, then go ahead. And if you believe it's "temporary" and not in reality about controlling the people, then go ahead and believe it. But I don't buy that it's anything more than a symbol of submission to these commies who are destroying and reordering our nation. Keep on drinking it up. I won't. Good night.
Why is it that you ignore all the studies done prior to COVID-19 that were unable to show any improvement in wound infections with & w/o masks on the surgeons during surgery? Anesthesiologists don’t wear them anymore and they are right at the patient’s head.
Fauci is not an expert on masks, he is not an expert on models and he talks out of both sides of his mouth. The single person I am least likely to trust is Fauci. The mask recommendations are voodoo, a leap of faith that studies have not supported.
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-masks-on-or-off/
Masks act as a symbol for society – you are protected. The evidence says you may not be.
Seventeenth-century depictions of “plague physicians” show them wearing a long beak-like mask, tied with rope and carrying a disinfectant flame in the beak.
The flame was supposed to prevent plague miasmata from entering the physician’s body, but carry a mask he did.
The question which is now being hotly debated is whether in the current pandemic we should all be wearing wear masks or not and if so in what circumstances.
Thirteen years ago one of us co-authored what was (to our knowledge) the first systematic review of physical interventions to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. The review was updated in 2009 and again in 2011 and is now accessible free of charge from the Cochrane website.
Our first review had an evidence nucleus of 7 case-control studies carried out in the Far East during the 2003 SARs 1 epidemic. The studies were mostly carried out in an emergency situation with researchers under a lot of pressure to provide answers for decision-makers.
The evidence they provided showed that multiple interventions such as barriers, distancing and hygiene decreased the risk of infection. However, the bulk of the evidence came from healthcare workers settings, with only one case-control looking at family clusters, within their dwellings. In the following updates, we added a few more observational studies and the number of randomised studies increased, but not by much.
This year we have produced a further update. Because of the expected greater number of studies and the haste of our funders for answers, we decided to split the review update into two parts. We were confident that we would have a number of trials to answer our questions with greater precision than case-control studies. The first part includes evidence of the effects of face masks, eye protection and person distancing as single interventions, not in combination.
Evidence from 14 trials on the use of masks vs. no masks was disappointing: it showed no effect in either healthcare workers or in community settings. We could also find no evidence of a difference between the N95 and other types of masks but the trials comparing the two had not been carried in aerosol-generating procedures...