to measure COMPLIANCE, not SCIENCE.
Posted on 05/27/2021 6:36:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The first ecological study of state mask mandates and their use to include data from the winter case spike has found that widespread mask-wearing likely didn’t slow the spread of COVID-19.
The study, conducted by the University of Louisville using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that “80% of US states mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic,” but while “mandates induced greater mask compliance, [they] did not predict lower growth rates when community spread was low (minima) or high (maxima).” The study also found that “mask mandates and use are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states.”
“Our findings do not support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease with greater public mask use,” the study said, as reported by Townhall’s Spencer Brown.
The study noted that “masks may promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic, but risk compensation can also occur.” Researchers described multiple downsides to wearing a mask, including:
"Prolonged mask use (>4 hours per day) promotes facial alkalinization and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk. British clinicians have reported masks to increase headaches and sweating and decrease cognitive precision. Survey bias notwithstanding, these sequelae are associated with medical errors. By obscuring nonverbal communication, masks interfere with social learning in children. Likewise, masks can distort verbal speech and remove visual cues to the detriment of individuals with hearing loss; clear face-shields improve visual integration, but there is a corresponding loss of sound quality."
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And a screen door on a submarine won’t keep water out.
Duh
No way.
Imagine an air blade — that would be cool.
Late to the party, aren’t they?
The only benefit of masks was a placebo effect. Unfortunately, coronaviruses don’t let placebo effects stand in their way of spreading.
How any of us here were pointing out the facts of this all along.
The virus particle size vs weave openings in the vast majority of masks people would wear?
The fact most people dont have properly fitted masks and have gaps?
The fact water vapor pases through almost all the masks, thus the virus is going right along with it?
And look what we endured from the covidiots here on FR, much less the idiot liberals who were worshipping St Fauxci and the church of Perpetual Flip-Flops.
Who are Damian D. Guerra and Daniel J. Guerra and what are they doing publishing a study using up data from which they are drawing conclusions?
Made up data
It’s been obvious they don’t work when the states with the most restrictive mandates had the highest case numbers.
And it only took wrecking the economy to figure it out. /s
At least they’re saying it and getting it out....all of this stuff was known even at the time that Fauci started babbling about masks, but it suddenly became a forbidden topic.
I think the magic is gone or at least going, and now it’s no longer a career-ender to mention politely that the emperor has no clothes.
The only benefit of masks was a placebo effect.
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Yup. Adult “blankies”.
Ya don’t say! That’s because masks do not stop the virus! The virus is way, way too small! Lockdowns and masks were all bull sh*t!
This is my shocked face. :-/
No. This is the first professional study that has been done using winter covid data. So it is much more inpactive that previous ones.
“Lockdowns and masks were all bull sh*t!”
Not to mention “social distancing.” I am told that a corona virus can waft 28 feet on a gentle zephyr. What good would maintaining a six-foot distance be?
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