~Easy
Posted on 02/10/2022 5:45:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
By now, we are all well familiar with the fickle vacillation of public health guidance around community masking. Initially, masks were simply not really effective. Shortly thereafter, they were not only effective for protecting others, but also for protecting oneself. Then they were mandated. Most recently, those cloth masks that have become commonplace, which were encouraged for nearly two years, which we were taught to hand-make by news outlets, were suddenly, as if overnight, relegated to ‘facial decorations.’
How can it be that a tool which has been around and studied1 for well over 100 years in the context of aerosolized respiratory viruses suddenly seems so poorly understood? This mini-review will advance the argument that low-quality evidence and impoverished bioethical frameworks have informed a deeply fraught relationship to masking in America.
While we have surely all heard some variation of the argument that Americans are too myopic or selfish to do what people in Asian countries have been doing for decades, this is insufficient for making sense of the present moment. Ignoring the knowledge we have, avoiding cost-benefit analyses, and most importantly failing to clarify fundamental ethical principles risk irreversibly damaging the credibility of medicine and public health in the eyes of those we wish to serve.
It is crucial to understand pre-COVID-19 research on mask efficacy in the context of influenza because, as was recognized early on, both respiratory pathogens are thought to be able to spread by breathing alone via exhaled aerosolized particles.2 Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, as late as 2019, the WHO Global Influenza Programme published an analysis of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the context of a potentially deadly viral respiratory pandemic,3 at the time considered most likely to result from a...
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Facial decorations are all they ever were.
My first ones said:
THANKS
CHINA
Hhmmm....you made me think...I’m gonna do a “THANKS COMMIES” Mask
Mine said
F.U.
WUHAN
~Easy
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IF any mask actually worked no one in Japan would ever get sick
Brain Fog!!
That’s right people. Masks are for professinals only, common folk can’t possibly wear them safely. If you see a mask lying around, back away from it. Ask your neighbors if they have a mask in the house before you let your kids go visit.
Mask fog has made libtards more unhinged than they already were.
Coupled with the coof, it’s double the fun.
Expecting Leftists to take helpful hints in living from Christian inspired thinking is a bit much.
My O2 levels fall into the 80s when I wear a mask. It was measured in the doctor’s office with me sitting quietly in a chair, ( doing absolutely nothing).
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