Posted on 11/13/2022 7:04:53 AM PST by bitt
Is there anything masking can’t do? Except for control COVID spread, of course.
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine purports to show that mask policies in schools work to contain COVID. But that’s not all: The authors conclude, “We believe that universal masking may be especially useful for mitigating effects of structural racism in schools, including potential deepening of educational inequities.”
Sure, masks help fix structural racism. Why not? And the next study will show masking fights climate change.
No, what this study shows is that much of the medical establishment continues to be intensely woke — and deeply dishonest because of it. Just as the “experts” told us gathering in crowds wasn’t OK in spring of 2020, but just weeks later protesting for Black Lives Matter somehow was.
This dishonesty is going to hurt us all for a long time.
As for this study specifically: It does not prove what the authors intended to. It’s just the latest in a push by agenda-driven scientists, and the media who love them, to get people back in masks.
The study centers on two Massachusetts school districts that didn’t remove their mask mandates as soon as the state allowed, in March 2022, but kept them until June. A few months later, they saw slightly lower COVID rates than the other districts.
It’s amazing that COVID could lay in wait like that, ready to punish those who behaved badly months earlier. What’s even more startling: COVID rates in all the schools were higher before anyone took off their mask — but that uncomfortable fact goes unmentioned in the write-up.
Plus, the study doesn’t look at actual mask use, just the mandates. Nor does it account for any differences in behavior, income level, lifestyles and so on. (Which
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I know someone who starts to cough when he sees a person with a mask.
I have no personal experience, but I have heard many fellow sailors and marines refer to face covering as advantageous... “so ugly she needed 2 bags...”
Makes slightly more sense than this study. And, I suppose that works for ugly men as well?
Yes!
Masks kill people, which reduces racism.
I’m relatively certain that some ‘signtist’ will find that masks keep your face warm, so you don’t need coal, oil, gas or electricity to keep you warm this winter.
Yep. When they publish a non-randomized, non-controlled trial that shows that one school district had 4.95% less covid cases when they kept wearing masks and think that proved anything.....you know they are full of sh*t. Anybody could cherry pick data and find that. Even if they didn’t cherry pick, it proves nothing. Any scientist knows this. Agree with the author (NY Post)...only mental wokeness could explain this being published. Have seen this from the CDC but now the premier medical journal in the USA.
The journals are now propaganda organs...
During the worst of the mask madness I encountered a middle-aged woman pumping gas who freaked out because I was pumping gas without wearing a mask....
I advised her she was suffering from female hysteria and should go home and immediately follow the Granville method of treatment...
I do hope she looked that up ;-)
Well...then everybody better wear gloves, sunglasses and a hoodie also. Maybe even a paper bag over their head...
Oh and...teach everyone to say “shrimp” instead of saying “skrimp”. Or, pronounce the letter “R” properly, instead of saying “R-ruh”.
Masks reduce LEARNING!!!!
RE: Granville method of treatment.... possible. I would have suggested a high colonic.
Works this way. The mask is to cover your God given white face. If you don’t cover your God given white face, you will exposed as a racist flaunting your whiteness.
There are exceptions though, white leftists will be exempted because of their moral superiority.
Picture that witch Hochul creature unmasked with all the little masked chilluns around her.
anti-white racism dramatically increased in the last few years so this story is a lie.
If the mandates return I will minimize my mask use down to close to zero. If its in any way an optional thing and I have to mask I won’t be going. I didn’t use the pickup option when doing groceries before but I will now if it comes back.
Words mean what ever the Left wants them to mean.
Nonsense.
More like secession of the rural areas from the cities.
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