Mask studies

 March 5 for Facebook…

A large scale, high-quality Danish study with randomized controlled trials showed that masks are not effective. UNSW’s randomized controlled trials support the use of respirators but not medical or cloth masks. NEJM and Mayo studies have focused on droplet size, but these are not studies of people getting the virus. The Lancet report from June 2020 admitted there were no randomized trials at that time. And mask mandates failed to stop the autumn resurgence of the virus in Europe and the US. The nation of Sweden and the state of Georgia, which did not require masks, fared no worse than places with mask mandates. Georgia has deaths of 0.00163, while New Jersey has deaths of 0.00262. Even South Dakota has fewer deaths per capita than five states that require masks. Anthony Fauci told Governor Kristi Noem she would have hospitalizations of 10,000 per day, but the most she had was 600.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/major-study-finds-masks-dont-reduce-covid-19-infection-rates/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32512240/

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-research-confirms-critical-role-of-masks-in-preventing-covid-19-infection/

https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

March 14 for Facebook…

The pro-mask studies I’ve seen have been unimpressive.

I thought the Kansas county study was the best they had, but it turns out they were just looking at week-to-week growth. Sure the mask counties had some weeks with slower growth, but overall case growth was twice as much as in counties without masks. And of course there could’ve been other factors such as handwashing and social distancing, or the virus simply running its course sooner in different places. You may not agree with the Sentinel of Kansas City Missouri, but even NPR admits they used a seven-day rolling average.

https://sentinelksmo.org/ku-researchers-understate-covid-case-growth-to-justify-mandates/

May 15 for Facebook…

There were never any clinical trials, peer reviewed and replicated, to support the use of masks. The Danish study and Stanford study did not support the use of masks. States without mask mandates were doing fine. The writing was on the wall.

There was no serious science to support the use of masks. The Kansas county study looked at week-to-week changes, and was rather deceptive. The Mayo study just looked at droplet size, didn’t really prove that masks work.