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Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID, scientific review finds
Fox News ^ | February 13, 2023 7:17pm EST | Melissa Rudy

Posted on 02/13/2023 7:55:44 PM PST by conservative98

Research suggests CDC’s claims of mask effectiveness may have been exaggerated

By Melissa Rudy | Fox News

The stance by the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) on face masks has taken many twists and turns throughout the COVID pandemic.

After initially claiming face coverings weren’t necessary, the CDC changed course in April 2020, calling on all Americans — even children as young as 2 years old — to mask up.

That September, then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Senate hearing that "face masks are the most important powerful health tool we have," even suggesting that they might offer more protection than vaccines.

Those recommendations likely played a large part in 39 U.S. states eventually enacting mask mandates.

Now, a new scientific review — led by 12 researchers from esteemed universities around the world — suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID-19.

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KEYWORDS: cdc; cochranelibrary; coronavirus; covi19; covid; covid19; facemasks; icantbreathe; masks; n95
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To: conservative98

Walk into a Factory restroom at 9:00 AM on a Monday morning with a mask on and try not to smell the overpowering stench coming through the mask.

If you can smell things through a mask, you can get Covid through a mask.

Exponential spread in Japan and China prove masks don’t work. Nobody religiously wears more masks than those people.


41 posted on 02/14/2023 4:30:35 AM PST by UNGN
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To: conservative98

Like farting in a pair of jeans.


42 posted on 02/14/2023 4:31:00 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“I would guess the masks even helped with the spread of the virus.”

I believe that was one of the reasons for the government push to wear them.


43 posted on 02/14/2023 4:33:48 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?)
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To: MulberryDraw

Meanwhile, while NYS dropped its muzzle mandate for healthcare settings and nursing homes thus week, I can’t find a single NYS health system that has dropped its muzzle requirement.


44 posted on 02/14/2023 4:40:09 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mikelets456

If someone has covid, I ask if they have been vaccinated. If yes, I strongly encourage they get the entire set of shots again. They usually ask if we were vaccinated. When we say, Hell no, the expressions are priceless.


45 posted on 02/14/2023 4:44:44 AM PST by healy61
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To: metmom
The masks are a big part of the brainwashing and imaging. This is child abuse and psychological torment. Lord help these helpless innocents.

“Every word of this is so disgusting.

I can't believe HeadStart recommends this video on its official government website in 2023.

Adults can live freely, but toddlers with autism should struggle behind pointless cloth masks.

100% child abuse.”

https://twitter.com/Jusrangers/status/1624913841225080834

2/13/23

“Head Start: how to muzzle autistic children”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/02/13/head-start-how-to-muzzle-autistic-children-n530489

46 posted on 02/14/2023 7:43:58 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: \/\/ayne

47 posted on 02/14/2023 7:48:04 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: conservative98

The masks were likely known not to be effective, but were touted as a preventative anyway. The politicians then used these mask directives as part of their COVID tyranny…a visible sign of a loyal subject. Despite these studies and the waning of the virus you will see the brainwashed still wearing these masks even outdoors and alone in their cars as a talisman little different than wearing magic juju beads or acifidity bags.


48 posted on 02/14/2023 8:27:54 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: mikelets456
Thank you. Here in Redmond Oregon, which is in the middle of the state, I seldom see any masks. We often go to the Willamette Valley and Eugene where they are everywhere. Clearly it is a political statement now. I took the two Moderna shoots offered by the VA, but no more. Agent Orange already gives me one precursor for heart disease, and I don’t need another. Here is the letter I wrote about vaccines, which of course was never published. I did infuriate one editor so much they accused me of being a conspiracy theorist. I responded by suggesting the person read the links.

From: Retain Mike Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:50 AM Subject: FDA Approves Crippling and Lethal Vaccines

I visited websites listing adverse effects of pneumonia, flu, and shingles vaccines as injection site soreness, fever and chills, fatigue, muscle aches, severe allergic reaction, decreased appetite, nasal congestion, chest pain, fast/irregular heartbeat, seizures, headache, stomach pain, and nausea.

However, those for COVID 19 vaccines are numerous and disturbing. The American Heart Association using the PLUS Cardiac Test generates a score predicting the 5 yr risk (percentage chance) of a new Acute Coronary Syndrome. They concluded that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.

A federal judge ordered Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose Pfizer data that factored into FDA’s recent decision granting the experimental mRNA vaccine an Emergency Use Authorization. The first released data recorded over 800 adverse side effects. Most alarming were acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, cardiac failure, cardiogenic shock, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, stress cardiomyopathy, tachycardia, liver injury, facial paralysis, immune mediated/autoimmune disorders, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, polyarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, fibromyalgia/trigeminal neuralgia, amniotic cavity infection, congenital anomaly, death neonatal, eclampsia, and fetal distress syndrome.

Pfizer’s general overview of 42,086 cases of adverse effects in ninety days found 20,112 persons recovered, 1,233 died, and the balance pended resolution. Considering those circumstances, Oregon parents refusing vaccinations for their children should not have access to public education obstructed by bureaucrats.

Court Orders FDA To Comply With FOIA and Release Information On Pfizer Vaccine – First Batch of Documents Shows Over 1,200 Vaccine Deaths WITHIN FIRST 90 DAYS

https://thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/court-orders-fda-comply-foia-release-information-pfizer-eua-first-batch-documents-shows-1200-vaccine-deaths-within-first-90-days/

5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021

https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf

American Heart Association Circulation Journal

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712

“Reprehensible and Reckless:” Noted Cardiologist Blasts the FDA For Downplaying Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis and Approving Experimental Jab For Children – Says An “Extraordinary Number” of Young People Will End Up With “PERMANENT Heart Damage”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/reprehensible-reckless-noted-cardiologist-blasts-fda-downplaying-vaccine-induced-myocarditis-approving-experimental-jab-children-says-extraordinary-number-young-pe/

Myocarditis Tops List of Covid “Vaccine” Injuries Among 12- to 17-Year-Olds, VAERS Data Show

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4029824/posts

13 reasons why 5 to 11-year-old Children should not be given the Covid-19 Vaccine

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4023876/posts

National Vaccine Information Center: Found 1,033,994 cases where Vaccine is COVID19

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=CAT&EVENTS=ON&VAX=COVID19

Vaccinate children? Not mine

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/vaccinate_children_not_mine_.html

49 posted on 02/14/2023 8:40:36 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: mikelets456
I was suspicious of these vaccines from day one. Here is the email; I sent around after the VA gave me a sheet describing what was in what they stuck me with.

From: Retain Mike Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:33 PM To: Foxtrot Subject: COVID-19 Vaccine

I had my first of shot today at the VA center in White City and they gave me a fact sheet. I go back April 22 for my 2nd shot. They described exactly what was shot into my arm.

Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), lipids (SM-102, polyethylene glycol [PEG} 2000 dimyristoyl glycerol [DMG], cholesterol, and 1,2-disteaoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine [DSPC], tromethamine, tromethamine hydrochloride, acetic acid, sodium acetate, and sucrose.

I don’t know about you, but it sounds like something my younger son who works for Federal Protective Service would use to wipe down his duty pistol after cleaning it.

50 posted on 02/14/2023 9:04:20 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: MulberryDraw
I believe that was one of the reasons for the government push to wear them.

In the early days of the pandemic, the government had no solutions to the pandemic even though taxpayers have been charged mega billions for researching just this type of event. The best the CDC could come up with was to make a face diaper out of a t-shirt during the very early stages of the pandemic.

51 posted on 02/14/2023 9:41:40 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: conservative98

“It found that “wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (five studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (five studies; 8407 people), or respiratory illness (three studies; 7799 people).”


A few years ago we had a lot of forest fires around us, and during the worse, my wife and I went to the coast to stay. We actually had reservations for our anniversary.

One of our adult sons stayed in our home to help keep it safe. His company had given him a supply of the N95/P2 respirators. He tried the N95/P2 masks, and he couldn’t breath and function even without a minimal amount of smoke in the area.

A week later, back home, my wife and I tried a couple of these masks on our basically level road with a 5% grade in the last 20 yards after 80+ yards of level road. We basically could not breath. So, we just wore plain cheap masks to walk if it was smoky.

The N95/P2 masks were packaged 5 to a sealed bag. So, we decided to give the unopened and sealed bags to our local hospitals for the staff. They refused them as their staff had problems breathing with them. Again, that was a few months before Covid hit our area.

Even later after Covid hit our area, no one , in Health Care wanted these masks.


52 posted on 02/14/2023 9:45:34 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("What is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell !!v!!)
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To: The Great RJ
The masks were likely known not to be effective, but were touted as a preventative anyway.

Sadly, based on past performance, my capacity to believe anything touted by the government or media is completely shot.

And because the CDC and media are now saying the masks were useless, I have to wonder at what the "real" agenda is for releasing this news now.

53 posted on 02/14/2023 9:49:50 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: bigbob

“Yet I saw people in the store today wearing the damn things. Low information sheep!”

Once a week, I go to our local medium size chain grocery store.

Zero workers in the store wear masks. Most customers don’t wear masks.

For the last month+ I see about 5-10, mostly women wearing masks on each trip to the store. Many glare at us, the unmasked evil ones.

One woman challenged me last week about no mask.

I told her that she was wearing a mask, so I didn’t need one. She just stared at me.

Occasionally, we still see people driving and/or riding in a car with a mask.


54 posted on 02/14/2023 9:54:33 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("What is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell !!v!!)
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To: Bob434

Thanks! I was not aware of this.

In November before the Covid siege, I got a new CPap mask and a staff member recommended using Total mouthwash before bedtime and during a nocturnal pee break.

Also, medical advice from FR suggested putting a couple of drops of peroxide in the CPap water tank before going to bed.

With the exception of a couple of minor Covid Variants, this year and last year, I and my now not so new CPap machine are doing very well.


55 posted on 02/14/2023 10:10:24 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("What is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell !!v!!)
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To: Retain Mike

One of our relatives was exposed to agent Orange in Nam and has been on some special program for decades at a Vet Hosp..

He is in his mid 70’s and seems to be in great health and does all type of exercise from Pickleball, tennis doubles to walking, slow running and a few minutes each day of minimal weight lifting.

We get the feeling that his official Agent Orange treatment does not include any Covid shots.


56 posted on 02/14/2023 10:24:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("What is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell !!v!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

i like to use it right before a docs appointment or say grocery shopping- supposed to be effective for about an hour- but even if it doesn’t work for covid, it does kill dragon breath- so im good with it


57 posted on 02/14/2023 10:27:12 AM PST by Bob434
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To: metmom

What I found interesting about the masks. A few years before Covid, I had a discussion about masks with my fellow bone marrow transplant recipients. They were in the UK. Protocols for us in the US was to wear them after being released from the hospital for at least the first few months. Then during certain situations ie gardening etc.

But, in the UK, they said masks were unnecessary and didn’t work. Even on public transportation afterwards. So, they were not ‘required’ to wear them after release from the hospital. Now, we are talking about patients with infant like immune systems

Then suddenly Covid comes around and the UK mandates them. Even the people who said they were told they didn’t work after the transplant suddenly advocated for them during Covid.


58 posted on 02/14/2023 11:46:50 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Grampa Dave

Sounds great. I would not have taken the Moderna shots, but I usually trusted what the VA had for vaccines. Also, I volunteered at the local VA center and require at least the flu shot every year.


59 posted on 02/15/2023 8:11:28 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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