Tag: face masks don’t fucking work

Via Mercola

Story at-a-glance

• Using CDC data, no significant differences were found in COVID-19 case growth between states with or without mask mandates, during periods of low or high transmission
• The widespread use of masks did not reduce COVID-19 transmission in Europe, and a moderate positive correlation was found between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe
• An update to a CDC study on school mask mandates, using nearly six times more data, found no significant relationship between mask mandates in U.S. schools and COVID-19 case rates
• In Kansas, counties with a mask mandate had significantly higher COVID-19 case fatality rates than counties without a mask mandate
• One way masks cause harm may be the “Foegen effect” — the idea that deep re-inhalation of droplets and virions caught on facemasks might make COVID-19 infection more likely or more severe

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 80% of U.S. states mandated masks to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but accumulating research shows mask mandates and use do not lower the spread of the virus.¹ While rules requiring masks did increase compliance, they didn’t translate to lower transmission growth rates, whether community spread of SARS-CoV-2 was low or high.

Continue reading “How Masks Make You Sick Instead of Protecting You”

Via Eric Peters Autos

This is an alarming report – because of what it says about what has been going on. A good friend of mine, who isn’t elderly or obese or chronically afflicted by any sickness – who is a big strapping guy who lifts weights and also regularly does 30-50 mile competitive bicycle rides – called this morning to let me know he has the ‘Rona. Continue reading “Diaper Report”

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

Masks do not work to protect anyone from SARS-CoV-2. It’s all based on sloppy science. We asked the senior author of the Bangladesh mask study to defend his study. He failed. Badly. Very badly.

Summary

The CDC just decided to continue the transportation mask mandate for another two weeks. Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, concurs with the CDC decision. Both are unable to differentiate real science from a sloppy study.

There have been only two randomized trials to test whether public policy using masks to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 can reduce the spread.

The first one, in Denmark, showed that masks don’t work.

But the second one, in Bangladesh, claimed that they did.

Nature called it a “rigorous study” and Stanford and Yale promoted it as definitive in a press release.

But was it really? We challenged Yale Professor Jason Abaluck, the first author of that study, to defend their study. To his credit (and our utter amazement), he agreed but with one condition: we were only allowed one person to challenge him (because that’s how science works of course). We instantly agreed.

The discussion happened on April 3, 2022. The result: Abaluck failed. Badly. Very badly. One of our experts who viewed the interview said that it was worse than just sloppy work. He wrote, “This is bordering on fraud.”

Continue reading “Masks fail their latest test”

Authored by Jeffrey Barke, M.D., via AmericanThinker.com,

I recently traveled across the country to Hillsdale, Michigan.  My wife and I sat for five hours each way on airplanes with a mesh mask pressed across our faces.  It made the absurdity of the mask mandate we live under both clear and depressing.  The charade in which we are all forced to participate is not only totalitarian in nature, but also a big Orwellian lie.

I am sure most of the passengers on the planes were either COVID-19-vaccinated or COVID-19-recovered.  While few speak about the thousands of people who have had COVID-19 and survived, they are turning out to be an important group in the ongoing battle against the virus.  I myself am COVID-recovered after a bout with the disease a couple of months ago.  I now have natural immunity to the disease.

Forcing someone like me to wear a mask makes no scientific or health sense.  There are no studies to show that mask-wearing on an airplane can stop a respiratory viral illness.  If that were the case, we would expect pilots always to wear masks while in the cockpit.  But they don’t.  Maybe the recirculated air on airplanes keeps them safe from onboard viruses.  Furthermore, if mask-wearing on an airplane were critical to preventing the spread of the disease, why are we allowed to remove our masks for extended periods of time while eating and drinking?  I wish someone would pose that specific question to Dr. Fauci.

Continue reading “The Utter Orwellian Stupidity Of Masks On Airplanes”

Guest Post by Doctor Vinay Prasad

I came across a headline in the Guardian saying masks reduce the risk of COVID-19 by 53%. The story trumpets a piece published by the British Medical Journal.

Although lofty, this is still a lower number than the estimate offered by the CDC director on Twitter of 80%. Interestingly, in the only published cluster RCT to date during COVID-19, surgical masks had an 11% risk reduction and cloth masks had no effect at all on the primary endpoint of symptom driven lab positive results. That cluster RCT took place in a location with essentially no vaccination (aka circumstances which would give masks the best chance to show the best effect size).

Continue reading “Do masks reduce risk of COVID19 by 53%? How about 80%?”

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You will no doubt recall that business about forcing everyone to wear “masks” – no matter the type or the effectiveness . . . so long as it was a “mask”  . . . on the basis of the assertion that anyone might be infected and not know it and thereby, inadvertently spread it.

Notwithstanding that the “masks” worn by most people could not prevent it.  Dust “masks” – and old bandanas – being unable to do that.

Continue reading “Asymptomatically Spreading . . .”