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Do Masks Work?
City Journal ^ | August 11,2022 | Jeffrey H. Anderson

Posted on 08/10/2022 2:07:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk

In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive.

Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than hand hygiene alone, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than nothing, and one found that cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: covid1984; iylm; mask; tyranny
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1 posted on 08/10/2022 2:07:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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If you need something to prevent spit from flying out of your mouth they work fine.


2 posted on 08/10/2022 2:09:33 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Hojczyk

For sawdust and drywall dust, yes.


3 posted on 08/10/2022 2:10:06 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk

Do an image search with the term “animals” “nostrils”. Same thing with “birds” “nostrils”.

No animal has a covered mouth an nostrils. Not even the Old English Sheepdog.

There is a reason nature never evolved mouth and nostril coverings. If coverings gave a selective advantage, that is protection from infection, nature would have come up with that solution long ago.


4 posted on 08/10/2022 2:14:52 PM PDT by packagingguy
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Snoqualmie Valley Marines Testing Masks with Bear Spray
5 posted on 08/10/2022 2:16:15 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Hojczyk

Yes, they work.

They make formerly free citizens submissive and compliant.


6 posted on 08/10/2022 2:17:54 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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I wanna see a study about the useless vaccine. The results of which would be if you get the vaccine you will get Covid.


7 posted on 08/10/2022 2:22:40 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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...a two bagger, maybe.


8 posted on 08/10/2022 2:25:59 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Hojczyk

This was published in 2021.
Although the info still stands.


9 posted on 08/10/2022 2:26:01 PM PDT by consult
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To: Hojczyk
of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks

Really Cool Trannies?

Rubber Cock Telletubbies?

Random Croatian Toilets?

Righteous Camel Ticks?

Radical Commie Tards?

Ravishing Chilean Tomboys?

Reasonable Children's Toys?

Recreational Corn Tossing?

10 posted on 08/10/2022 2:27:06 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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This might work. Except the scumbag here wearing multiple masks got COVID about nine times already.

Damn losers.


11 posted on 08/10/2022 2:28:38 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,703,267 users on Truth Social)
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One thing is very effective. Cessation of gain of function research.
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12 posted on 08/10/2022 2:29:13 PM PDT by dforest
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Its much worse than “they don’t work”.

They actually INCREASE your chances of getting sick.

Why???

Because they LOWER your blood oxygen levels, WEAKENING your Immune System!

Among other things such as bacterial breeding grounds and re-breathing of your body’s attempts to exude waste, masks MAKE IT ALL WORSE!

Stop wearing them!

Can you breathe through a condom???

No!... Why?... because air molecules cannot pass through a condom....

But can you guess what WILL pass through a condom???...

That’s right!... a VIRUS can!

And they want us to try and stop them with a face mask?

I don’t think so.

They want you to be a faceless dweeb or a dead one.


13 posted on 08/10/2022 2:40:44 PM PDT by Safrguns
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Well, to fight these novel pandemics, we’ll do everything humanly possible. Unfortunately, we we barbers aren’t gods. You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your COVID-19 was caused by demonic possession, Chinese biological warfare or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that we are suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarfn named “Fauci”, living in our stomachs - Theodoric


14 posted on 08/10/2022 2:40:54 PM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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Jeffrey is "asking for a friend". /funny bone

Do Masks Work?
For some things, yes. For viruses, no.

15 posted on 08/10/2022 2:44:16 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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16 posted on 08/10/2022 2:44:28 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Can we quit with the “do they work?” questions? Please. I’ve had my fill of bs relating to all things covid. Masks work for certain jobs, smog and pollution issues, so doctors don’t spit into your open chest cavity while they’re doing surgery and to allow liberals to virtue signal. That’s it. I am done with the speculations and media heads who are probably so coked out that they let those little minds wander all by themselves only to write crap like this ^

Over it completely. We KNOW what the governments did. We KNOW they intentionally killed grandma, we KNOW they intentionally subjected millions of people to potential life threatening side affects from the fauxinne. Their day is coming….


17 posted on 08/10/2022 2:46:06 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Maskot
DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you.
Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.v While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation.
Visited family.
The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.

They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They messed with supply chains and emptied store shelves, while the elites partied on yachts and Martha’s Vineyard.
They queered women’s sports and the military, and made the citizenry pay for it.
They sexualized schoolchildren, and persecuted parents at school board meetings.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.

Do not forget what they have done.
Do not forgive them.
They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmareof the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best the Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us.
Project.
Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).

DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity.
Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a “public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
(Remember, they are the very same people who ignore a pubic health emergency aka AIDS.)
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.

NEVER FORGET.

REMEMBER…..in NOVEMBER!


18 posted on 08/10/2022 2:48:37 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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How do I put this ...

No.


19 posted on 08/10/2022 2:54:41 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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Of course they work. They make mail ballots and drop boxes compulsory for Dem election theft. That’s all they are for.

That and letting sanctimonious Karens feel smug.


20 posted on 08/10/2022 3:09:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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