Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Documents recently obtained from the National Institutes of Health suggest public health officials used inaccurate information and misrepresented medical research to advance their policy objective that masks prevent severe COVID-19 and virus transmission—despite opposing scientific evidence received from experts.
In a recently obtained letter (pdf) sent in November 2021 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), top epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and seven colleagues informed the agency it was promoting flawed data and excluding data that did not reinforce their narrative.
The letter warned the agency that misrepresenting data on trusted websites such as the CDC and the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network—jointly created by the CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)—would “damage the credibility of science,” endanger public trust by “misrepresenting the evidence,” and give the public “false expectations” masking would protect them from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
“We believe the information and recommendations as provided may actually put an individual at increased risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 and for them to experience a serious or even life-threatening infection,” Mr. Osterhom wrote.
The authors urged the IDSA to remove the suggestion that masking prevents severe disease from its website and asked the CDC to reconsider its statements about the “efficacy of masks and face coverings for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2.”
Osterholm also noted a pattern of selectively choosing data that supported the desired narrative that masks prevent severe COVID-19 disease and transmission—claims he said are unsupported by the scientific evidence provided by the CDC and IDSA on their websites.
The IDSA “Masks and Face Coverings for the Public” webpage appears to “focus on the strengths of studies that support its conclusions while ignoring their shortcomings of study design,” Mr. Osterholm wrote. “Studies that do not support its perspective are similarly downplayed.”
The COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network was created in 2020 to share “accurate, timely information about COVID-19.” According to its website, the IDSA’s editorial team of infectious disease and public health experts synthesize clinical guidance, identify emerging scientific consensus and areas of ongoing uncertainty, and tackle “misconceptions and disinformation.”
Although partly funded by the CDC, the IDSA collaborates with numerous medical professional organizations that publish medical journals and make recommendations based on agency guidance, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
The letter was sent to CDC officials, the associate medical and associate digital editors of the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network, and IDSA board members, which included Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the former director of the CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experts Ask CDC and IDSA to Address ‘Serious Errors’ on Website
In his letter to the CDC, Mr. Osterholm asked the CDC and IDSA to address the “serious errors” published on its website regarding the efficacy of masks as soon as possible and strongly urged the IDSA to remove the suggestion that masking prevents severe COVID-19 from its website and a podcast where such “irresponsible claims were made.”
Furthermore, Mr. Osterholm recommended the IDSA reconsider statements about the efficacy of masks and coverings for preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, noting the IDSA’s website falsely suggests evidence of mask efficacy has strengthened throughout the pandemic.
“We do not agree that the evidence for their efficacy has strengthened throughout the pandemic, as the website suggests,” Mr. Osterholm said. “In fact, contrary to the conclusion on this website, the November 2020 Cochrane Review cited states this: ‘Compared with wearing no mask, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness (9 studies; 3,507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3,005 people).’”
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The only respirator that has a chance to block viruses is one that is certified to filter out radionuclides, and that only comes with half or full faced rubber on a shaved face.
Extra ordinary voting rules coming right up. —Mostly in blue areas of swing states. Regular voting irregularities in blue states.
Like trying to stop a mosquito from flying through a chain-link fence.
” We have colleges doing this all again. They have notified the TSA we all have to start wearing masks again. They are going to try to shut down businesses and further cripple and destroy this country. I think it is time that at least 50 million people are going to stand up this time and say no, we are not doing it. I am not going to put on a face diaper, I am not going to lay off my staff and close my business again. I am not doing it.”
Dr. Tenpenny says this is not about saving lives or real medicine. It is 100% about control”
‘This is just the next level of wondering how much more control can they get. ‘
FOLLOW THE MONEY
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a $1.4 billion investment in developing the so-called next generation of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
If you live in a cold weather climate, you see the condensation.
Therefore, everything eventually comes out.
Therefore you transfer something from one place to another.
Ergo, you are a spreader.
Outlaw masks.
Cochrane Review handled this … twice. Once in 2020, before any mandates, and once again late last year.
“Dr. Tom Jefferson is the lead author of the newly updated Cochrane review on the evidence on masks and other physical interventions for combating respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2.”
If you want to undertake the fruitless task of persuading the unpersuadable, bookmark or print out the Cochrane Review survey of the scientific literature and the one or two interviews given by the lead author, Tom Jefferson.
Alternatively, it’s BFYTW all the way.
Listen: A TBPer who had experience in filter science told you already. The information is out there in abundance because there are entire industries founded on filter science. Masks can not work for respiratory diseases. Nothing more needs to be said.
OR you could simply read the disclaimer on the damned box they come in.
Jesus!
The CEO of Pfizer is now the world’s highest paid Pharma boss – 1 hour ago
While Moderna CEO became a multi billionaire during the covid hysteria era.
https://www.dossier.today/p/the-ceo-of-pfizer-is-now-the-worlds
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I ain’t wearing a mask anymore and will FUCK UP anyone trying to make me or my kids.
It says it on the box.
Are epidemiologists the only ones who read the mask box?
Apparently not.
Only the Top Secret ones do that.
The cult of experts is going to be hard for the masses to outgrow.
The case for “never” strengthens every passing day.