Posted on 12/14/2022 2:50:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again......
There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory viruses. One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either Covid-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing a surgical mask. (Masks were found not to be as effective for the rhinovirus, though, which causes the common cold.) A study of Covid-19 policies in Boston-area schools found that removing a mask mandate in 2022 was tied to nearly 12,000 additional cases among students and staff....
Masks work by filtering out both the tiny aerosol particles through which the coronavirus is primarily spread and the larger droplets that are thought to be responsible for most influenza and R.S.V. transmission. They also stop you from touching your face in case you picked up virus particles on your hands from a doorknob or subway pole. And while masks are most effective at stopping the spread of these viruses when the infected person is wearing one, masking to protect yourself from disease is still beneficial, particularly if you’re using a high-quality version like N95, KN95 or KF94.
“The basic truth is that masks work,” said Syra Madad, senior director of the systemwide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals. “Whether you’re talking about Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses like R.S.V. and flu, wearing a mask will help protect you against all these respiratory viral illnesses.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
NYT via MSM?
Insaner than Insane.
List of 30 studies showing face masks are useless against COVID-19
[increases it slightly!]
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v1.full-text
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32590322/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15340662/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26579222/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31159777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049528v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v2
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bio/23/2/23_61/_pdf/-char/en
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01658736
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/0195-6701(91)90148-2/pdf90148-2/pdf)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20200717141836/https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25776/rapid-expert-consultation-on-the-effectiveness-of-fabric-masks-for-the-covid-19-pandemic-april-8-2020
https://www.nap.edu/read/25776/chapter/1#6
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599448/
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-130.php?jid=jide
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1130147308702355
TL/DR: Millions of dollars trying to find a single beneficial reason to use masks. All papers show the opposite.
F F’n NO!
No.
20/20
smile
heee heee
BUT THE EARTH WILL BE SAVED!!!
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/sss - sick, stupid, sarcasm...
For later
Better wear two masks because the latest jab is only a bivalent. Guess they need a trivalent.
no
One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either Covid-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing a surgical mask.
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Duct tape works even better.
Just ignore the real science. Two studies were published and were in the news a week ago that indicate masks are ineffective and potentially harmful to health. I’ll go out on a limb and state masks are harmful to mental health, slow learning in children, reduce productivity in the workplace, and are bacteria traps strapped around your snouts. Seems to me when real science comes out that the government needs to strike back with the exact opposite. Government is the enemy. If you’re employed by government, then you are the enemy. You’re worthless and contribute zero value to the world. You make America last. Before worthless lazy ass government types respond to my post, enumerate the things you have done to stop this crap in your own place of employment. No, you just shut your mouth and dream of retirement and your eff’n taxpayer funded pension.
Because all the experts have been correct since this crap started.....
You can’t go past the pentademic. No minorities understand the base beyond 5.
Math is a cisgender heterosexual construct pushed via patriarchal mansplaininers without intersectional inputs.
Nope. Not going to happen
Masks are also fomites.
And I can’t tell you the number of healthcare professionals who I have personally witnessed over the last two years grossly violating their own health systems’ infection control protocols with regard to muzzles.
It’s ******* infuriating.
No wonder the enemedia won’t do stories on nosocomial infections, eh?
The Beverly Twitterbillies
apologies to Jed, grandma, Jethro, Ellie May and the cement pond
Come and listen to my story about a man named Musk
A poor Texian who works from dawn to dusk,
And then one day he was in the buying mood,
And he bought up a company in a way that was rude.
Twitter, that is. blue bird. social media.
Well the first thing you know ol Musk is revealin’,
All the cover up about Hunter’s stealin’
Said “Twitter archives is the place you oughta look
For all the evidence with which to throw the book.”
Kick backs, that is. The big guy. 10 percent.
Old Musk bought himself a treasure trove,
“lordy,” said Fox and their old friend Karl Rove
Musk went looking and guess what he had plenty?
Collusion with the Feds in the year of twenty-twenty
Election, that is. Hiding the truth. Misinformation.
Well the next thing you know old Musk is talking COVID
A new batch of tweets where the truth was hid
How social media was used to stop the spread
Of criticism, sayin’ it was incred …
ible, that is. Not scientific. Put your mask back on.
meanwhile in Bejing, after release from captivity of lock down and wearing masks, yesterday it was said that 80% would catch covid.
Demographically China is very top heavy with old folks. Covid is the way to exterminate the elderly and restore age balance
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