Published by Cochrane Library, the review dug into the findings of 78 randomized controlled trials to determine whether “physical interventions” — including face masks and hand-washing — lessened the spread of respiratory viruses.
When comparing the use of medical/surgical masks to wearing no masks, the review found that “wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people).”
Next, the review compared medical/surgical masks to N95 respirators (or P2 respirators, which are used in Europe).
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).”
“It was the state and local authorities that took the CDC’s recommendations and implemented the mandates,” Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor based in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
Maybe because a virus is smaller than a wavelength of visible light.
Science!
No shit
It wasn’t about COVID. It was about submission.
Yet I saw people in the store today wearing the damn things.Low information sheep.
I copied the below October 2021 letter (which of course was never published by the 40 or so papers I sent it to) to my son who served with Federal Protective Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He said he was issued a respirator and the N-95 masks. He was told cloth masks would be effective against only droplets and should never be used. When facing hazards, the N-95 mask could be used, but only after ensuring proper seal and negative pressure by following a three-step procedure. Then after a half hour he had to leave the area and reestablish the seal with a new mask. Masks could only prevent receiving and never [prevent spreading biological agents
From: Retain Mike Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:26 PM To: keri.lopez@redmondschools.org Subject: Mask Mandate
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) proclaimed its latest policy about masks and our governor mandated wearing by children as school began.
However, the best science the CDC could provide was uncontrolled studies highlighting first such groups as 139 hairdresser clients, 382 sailors on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, 124 Beijing households, and 839 Thailand residents subject to contact tracing. All results came from observation followed by personal judgement, and none result from the mathematical disciplines used to rigorously evaluate complex environments.
In the same article the CDC disparaged the 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Denmark involving 4,862 participants, which found no benefit to wearing masks to prevent infection. The disciplines of a RCT divides participants into different groups on a randomized basis. Random assignment means that factors not specifically controlled can cancel each other out by appearing equally in both groups. One group receives the treatment (which in this case was the mask) and the other group does not. Researchers can isolate the one variable and are not able to introduce biases to produce a preferred outcome.
RCT’s are considered the highest standard for this type of research. Therefore, the most reasonable approach for the CDC would have been to consider this study as a benchmark against which others would be evaluated, including studies from other countries which found masks ineffective and even harmful.
The above represents an especially valid approach, since the first four combined citations from their May scientific brief had less than half the participants of the Danish study. The proposed approach is especially valid also because the CDC dismissed the study for involving only .001 of Denmark’s population. At the same time polls predicting the decisions of 150,000,000 voters in a national election were determined by less than 1,500 participants or less than .00001.
Do Masks Work?
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/
Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.htm
Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm
Surgeon Shows CDC Top Evidence On Why Wearing Masks Work
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3988508/posts
Face masks for children: Both ineffective and dangerous
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/face-masks-children-ineffective-dangerous/
All the tragic potential harms of face masks
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/tragic-potential-harms-face-masks/
Already well known from studies of respiratory viruses before the covid-19 madness. But like much of well known science it was suspended during the madness along with the science of herd immunity and of not putting experimental medicines into wide use until long term safety studies are done and much else.
I would guess the masks even helped with the spread of the virus. They were never meant to be worn continuously; all they do in that case is trap viruses near the mouth and nose where they do the most damage. And you have to constantly touch your face to keep the mask adjusted properly.
Seems like the artsy-fartsy sorts are addicted to chronic maskerbation:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/mask-hysteria-these-nyc-venues-still-insist-on-face-coverings/
And many of these sorts are also practitioners of unprotected sex in unimaginable configurations.
What a dichotomy!
colgate total with at least 0.07 percent cetypyridinium chloride (CPC) probably helped prevent catching covid more than masks did
How can you tell when the government is lying?
It’s whenever they say or publish anything.
Most of us here knew this years ago. Now retards like Fox News can try and catch up I guess. Bastards.
True believers out there are still masking up. Still trying to mask kids. Mentally ill.
Ping
Infectious Disease ping
GEEE, who would have ever imagined that a standard dust/fume mask wouldn’t work against some particulate only 100 nanometers in size.
Remember 1 nanometer is only 1 BILLIONTH of a meter!
Using the masks I see all the IDIOTS wearing is like using a chain link fence to stop mosquitos.
Even an N95 mask is only good for particles down to 0.30 microns (nanometers) and guess what, a Covid particle is only 0.125 microns (nanometers); YOUR MASK IS WORTHLESS!
And cloth masks are about the worst!
COVID-19’s lasting impact: ‘Less attractive’ people wear masks more often than others...
https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-19-impact-less-attractive-people-wear-masks-more-others-study
The study’s authors added, “Our findings suggest that mask-wearing can shift from being a self-protection measure during the COVID-19 pandemic to a self-presentation tactic in the post-pandemic era.”
But the researchers emphasize the effects of self-perceived attractiveness on the intention to wear a mask only applies to situations when people are very motivated to make a good impression, said co-author Incheol Choi, a professor of psychology at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, to Fox News Digital.
Now they tell us..🙄