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Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?
newscientist ^ | 10/31/2023 | Michael Le Page

Posted on 11/01/2023 7:51:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A review of the studies done so far has concluded that wearing masks really does help prevent the spread of covid-19. It is far from the first paper to come to this finding, so why does the issue remain so controversial? The problem is that it isn’t easy to carry out individual studies of the highest standard during a pandemic.

That standard is a randomised controlled trial (RCT), in which people are randomly assigned to either get a treatment or intervention, in this case wearing a mask, or not. Because of the practical difficulties, only two RCTs have looked at whether wearing masks prevents the spread of covid-19 outside of healthcare settings.

One, in Denmark, was too small to produce a statistically significant result. The other, in Bangladesh, found that in villages randomly chosen to be supplied with masks, 35 per cent fewer people aged more than 60 years old and 10 per cent fewer people overall got symptomatic infections, compared with villages that weren’t supplied with masks.

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KEYWORDS: arguing; covid; covid19; covid1984; fakenews; london; masks; michaellepage; notheydont; scamdemic; ukfaggot; wardoff
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It says on a box of masks: will not provide any protection against covid-19
https://gilmourlance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/mask.jpg


101 posted on 11/01/2023 11:36:50 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: gibsonguy

You’re correct. The packaginģ even says it’s not foŕ viruses.
It’s like trying to keep mosquitos out with a chain link fence.

The study as printed in the OP doesn’t list which mask(s) they tested.

It’s also been shown that masks contribute to other health issues such as redùced oxygen intake and facial infections.


102 posted on 11/01/2023 11:38:47 AM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Unlike the bs I see on weak minded people. Blocks brain cells too apparently.


103 posted on 11/01/2023 11:41:42 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Face masks do nothing to ward off CoVID-19. Not a single darn thing.


104 posted on 11/01/2023 12:10:36 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: All

I live in a university town. The U had all sorts of mask and vaccine mandates. They bragged about having some better covid stats than the town at large. Omicron hit and their policies didn’t make any real difference. At that point the state and the U(Illinois) threw in the towel and still declared victory..


105 posted on 11/01/2023 1:16:16 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Bshaw

“ Ayn Rand was so ahead of her time in her writings.”

Yes she was. Rand and Orwell were modern day prophets.


106 posted on 11/01/2023 1:47:50 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: XRdsRev

If you have no idea who Cochran that already says a lot and you still have not provided link to your “gold standard mechanical study” which is utterly useless regardless for real life application.

It has become obvious you are a troll on this issue and blatantly trying to obfuscate the issue.

Now you try to stand on the term uncontrolled showing you have absolutely zero understanding that is exactly what any aggregate study of all other studies are. You show you have no clue how such studies work.

Once again explain how your vaunted, still not linked mechanical study translate to life application, hell you have not even acknowledge the study you are referring to is for N95 or better because your study is not applicable to the non sealed surgical masks everyone was using.

I am done responding to you, until you link the study AND show it applies to he paper masks in question AND how that applies to the common usage node in question anything else you trow out is a waste of everyone’s time.


107 posted on 11/01/2023 2:02:23 PM PDT by Skwor
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To: wjcsux

“Yes she was. Rand and Orwell were modern day prophets.”

Add Aldous Huxley to that list.


108 posted on 11/01/2023 2:20:54 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Skwor

I am not a troll, just not a rigid ideologue idiot. What Cochrane reviews is irrelevant if you don’t understand the problems with uncontrolled population studies they based their analysis on.

Regardless you totally missed the point of my initial response. The question was do masks offer protection against COVID. No uncontrolled population study can answer that. The only way to measure the efficiency of a mask is to actually test the mask.

Bullet proof vests offer protection but if you looked at a population of people that wore them, you would see plenty of people injured and killed while wearing them. That doesn’t mean the vests didn’t work at all, it means there was some other unknown variables in that group.


109 posted on 11/01/2023 2:20:58 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: XRdsRev

Baloney. Covid was never a circulating respiratory disease.


110 posted on 11/01/2023 2:26:58 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: gibsonguy
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?

If someone wants to protect themselves why would anyone not let them wear a mask? Are they taking the option to be masked away from anyone? If not, then an argument would be silly.

111 posted on 11/01/2023 2:35:16 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: ChicagoConservative27

New Scientist has been an obvious fraud since Day 1 because by their title they presumed to tell you (without explaining why) that there was something the matter with “old scientists.”

If that’s not compelling logic, it also bears mention they’ve also been evangelists for Man-Made Global Warming since Day 1.


112 posted on 11/01/2023 2:35:35 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Bshaw

“Brave New World” is a must read for everyone.


113 posted on 11/01/2023 6:26:15 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Face masks "ward off" covid-19"

Ward off. Like garlic to a vampire.

114 posted on 11/02/2023 12:36:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
"Face masks "ward off" covid-19" Ward off. Like garlic to a vampire.

Yes, but with fewer successful clinical trials.

115 posted on 11/02/2023 12:38:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: gibsonguy

Zackly.


116 posted on 11/02/2023 7:50:40 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: XRdsRev

117 posted on 11/02/2023 8:28:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Allegra
Masky McMaskerson

🤣

118 posted on 11/03/2023 5:33:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

But the FDA says “Y’all are not a horse. Srsly. Stop It”

Now I feel all scienced.


119 posted on 11/03/2023 5:35:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Myrddin

My job is quite busy these days, but I’ll check it out.
Thanks, Myrddin


120 posted on 11/03/2023 6:02:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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