A major new study shows that masks don’t stop the spread of COVID. Will the mandaters apologize?
A dozen scientists from around the world conducted a massive metastudy of our efforts to fight COVID…
About time.
The authors examined 78 different studies on the efficacy of different mitigation efforts such as masking, distancing, screening, quarantining, and hand-washing. How did these interventions affect the spread of the flu, COVID, or similar viruses?
What did they discover?
For starters, hand-washing was effective in stopping the spread of these illnesses. That’s not surprising.
But here’s the most eye-opening finding: “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness/COVID‐19-like illness compared to not wearing masks.” In other words, masks didn’t do much — if anything.
With the size of those particles and how easily they fit thru the average masks, let along after wearing a mask for a period of time (and your moisture from your breathe effecting the material of the mask, etc.)
Early on, when public-health officials told us to wear masks, they were simply playing it safe. But as time went on, even as the efficacy of masks became more doubtful, the officials switched from asking to mandating.
A power trip and the desire to control people.
What happened in the past happened in the past. The mask mandaters in 2020 had an excuse. The mandaters in 2023 don’t. Today, they should all personally and publicly fess up and explain why they made the mistakes they did.
Yay, and how stunted the growth of our very young, with the lack of seeing faces and interacting, and how that effected their speaking/intelligence, etc.
If the mask mandaters don’t explain the source of their error, they are immolating whatever authority and credibility they have left.
Too many people already don’t trust those people (be they health officials, politicians, etc).
They had ruined too many lives and livelihoods.
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