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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?”
Because it doesn’t.
Not arguing, not wearing. Next.
so why does the issue remain so controversial?
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Simple - Science is no longer science. It is whatever someone pays to say.
BS! It states on the side of a box of the blue ones that it doesn’t do anything.
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?”
Because it doesn’t.
Bull chit, just like following one way lines in grocery stores prevents the transmission of COVID.
Nonsense... absolute nonsense.
There is NOT 1, not a single solitary study ever done that has shown ANY STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANT IMPACT to infection rates or outcomes from universal masking!
Why are we arguing about it? Because people like this author keep telling lies... that’s why
Besides, if you got the vax and a umpteen boosters, what are you worried about? Except for the fact that you got Lord knows what coursing through your veins.
“authorities asking people to wear masks – known as a mask mandate”
Asking is not a mandate. A mandate is forcing. The author is dishonest because he knows how many rights were trampled and how many freedoms were taken away because of masks.
What’s covid-19?
Believe my !Science but not your science. The biggest study ever done by the literal gold standard of medical studies found the exact opposure, masks do not work. Jackass
wearing masks really does help prevent the spread of covid-19 about as well as chain link fencing protects against mosquitos...
More total bull s^^t! They have to keep telling lies, they just can’t help themselves. So F-ing much for “following the science”.
If the “vaccines” work why are you still wearing face diapers?
Now...do the Amish.
Carefully...
Of course this garbage comes from a site with the word, “Scientist” in the link.
Ayn Rand was so ahead of her time in her writings.
Go... To... Hell. Wear mine too for extra protection.
False. Masks do next to nothing to prevent the spread of anything. Just read the disclaimer on the box the masks come in.
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