Masks may return despite science showing they don’t work

Face masks may return amid an anticipated holiday "tripledemic" of highly contagious respiratory viruses, reports the Washington Post.
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Officials warn of ‘tripledemic’ of influenza, coronavirus, RSV

Art Moore
WND News Center

Face masks may return amid an anticipated holiday “tripledemic” of highly contagious respiratory viruses, reports the Washington Post.

COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) already are spreading, and public health officials are beginning to talk about face masks again, the paper said.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, says her agency urges everyone “to wear a high quality, well-fitting mask to help prevent the spread of respiratory illness,” particularly on public transportation and during airport travel. She said masking is especially important in counties with high COVID-19 community levels.

However, last February, medical scientists from UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine and USC’s Keck School of Medicine sent a letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors arguing the mask mandate in effect at the time wasn’t working, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.

The scientists cited the county’s statistics along with studies in Europe and some U.S. states showing transmission of COVID-19 did not slow down after mask mandates were imposed.

In July, some of the same doctors published their views in an op-ed in the Orange County Register.

The Post cited a CDC study of mask use in California that found people who reported always wearing a cloth mask in indoor public spaces last year were 56% less likely to test positive for the coronavirus compared with people who did not wear masks.

But the scientists at UCLA and USC pointed out that when researchers repeated the CDC study, using identical methods but a larger and better dataset, the benefit of masking disappeared.

Randomized control studies have indicated masks offer little or no protection from COVID-19, including a Danish study published in Annals in Internal Medicine finding no statistically significant difference between wearing a surgical mask and no mask. A much larger Yale study in Bangladesh – which has been widely touted as support for masking – found no statistically significance difference between mask wearers and those without for every age group under 50.

Until the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the World Health Organization and the CDC advised against wearing masks in public to protect against a respiratory virus. In March 2020, a top WHO official affirmed there is “no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly.”

A former adviser to the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled a list of more than 150 studies and articles presenting data and evidence that universal masking is ineffective in stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and causes harm.

The Post also recommended using N95 masks, which the paper said “will trap at least 94 to 95 percent of the most risky particles.”

But a new peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trial published in Annals of Internal Medicine found no statistically significant difference between the performance of surgical masks and the highly touted N95s against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Los Angeles County is considering renewing its indoor mask mandate, the Los Angeles Times reported. And the Sacramento City Unified School District said it would require masks indoors if the CDC designates Sacramento County as having a high COVID community level.

The U.S. government, under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has advocated masking for children as young as 2.

However, during a recent deposition in a joint lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, Fauci was unable to cite any study backing his sudden change of position on the effectiveness of masks in curbing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.


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3 Comments

  1. Melissa

    Interesting link in the article to the “CDC study of mask use in California.” The study looks like it was just a phone survey, and not even a very good one at that. The CDC journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), is not peer-reviewed, so sometimes it puts out junk science like this retrospective, self-selected mask survey.

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  2. Dave Roberts

    Sorry, but the ship already sailed on this tactic. The fact that Rochelle Walensky is still the CDC Director is reason enough to distrust everything from them. The script for this was written back around 2009. The movie “Contagion” was released 2011. Watch it. The names are different but the storyline is the same.

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  3. MetaWorld2

    This is my story and I am sticking to it!
    +++++++++++++++

    In 2016 or 2017 I almost died from pneumonia. My ER visit report said I was treated for
    “Community Acquired Pneumonia”.

    The empath in me asked “What the heck was that?”

    I had heard of:
    *Bacterial Pneumonia
    *Pneumococcal Pneumonia
    *Bronchial Pneumonia
    *Streptococcal Pneumonia

    But NEVER “Community Acquired Pneumonia”!

    Some time later, as I kept asking myself “Why would they call it that?”
    A logical answer came to me.

    IF there was some kind of illness/in this case pneumonia, which of course IS a “Respiratory” affliction, and they wanted to “Track it” they would give it a “new name” (Community Acquired Pneumonia) in order to be able to do that! They would know how easily transmissible it was, and be able to build statistics.
    It had to be serious or people wouldnt be dying from it. Such as my Sister. In my medical background, I do not remember Pneumonia as being airborne transmissible before Covid-19.

    My illness was way before Covid-19.
    My point being, I think this virus was popping up, man made virus or not, they could “Track it!” Before calling a Pandemic!
    They could see how fast it traveled, by statistics etc.

    IF it was released on purpose, world population would not have a clue.

    My hypothesis is, they were already tracking it. They KNEW, it was highly contagious, and of course this also means it had already been loosed into the public.

    Ei. My sister died 1 1/2 mos before I came down with it. My niece Tegan got it the same week or two following her mothers death!
    IF my sister had sought proffessional help earlier she would not have died. When your oxygen tanks it is NOT good.
    I believe it was very contagious.

    So check out this article today, in CLARK COUNTY NEWS TODAY!

    “https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/masks-may-return-despite-science-showing-they-dont-work/

    “Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, says her agency urges everyone “to wear a high quality, well-fitting mask to help prevent the spread of respiratory illness,” particularly on public transportation and during airport travel. She said masking is especially important in counties with high COVID-19 community levels”

    Key thought here:
    masks “Important, in counties with high COVID-19
    ‘COMMUNITY LEVELS”

    THEY already knew! Everything!
    One more important thing to remember is and many do not know this.
    The PCR tests is HOW they were spreading the virus throughout the world.

    Take it or leave it!

    TRUST GOD !

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