The paper summarizes the first clinical study it cites (endnote 26) as follows: “The results of this study showed that among symptomatic individuals (those with fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose ect…) there was no difference between wearing and not wearing facemask for coronavirus droplets transmission of particles of >5 µm. Among asymptomatic individuals, there was no droplets or aerosols coronavirus detected from any participant with or without the mask”.
In sharp contrast, the abstract of that study reads: “Surgical face masks significantly reduced detection of influenza virus RNA in respiratory droplets and coronavirus RNA in aerosols, with a trend toward reduced detection of coronavirus RNA in respiratory droplets. Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals.”
The paper is a flubro con job.
So, in effect, even the other study admits that there is a benefit from masks only from symptomatic (already sick) individuals. Why then the emphasis on forcing everyone to wear them, even frightening little children into it?
Also, just think for a moment of the effect on a symptomatic person of wearing one. They would be 10 times worse off through lack of oxygen (when they were already congested in any case) and cross contamination by having to breath back their own germs combined with all the others attracted to a damp mask. It makes me feel ill just thinking about it.
Forcing whole populations to wear masks is nothing more than an extreme form of population control and outright punishment.