Yet another massive study on the use of masks to prevent transmission has been conducted and once again it shows that mask use does nothing whatever to stop viral transmission. Nothing, Zero, zip, nada.
This is far from the first time that studies have found that masks don’t do anything to protect us from the conronavirus, or any other virus, for that matter.
We have mentioned at least two of these studies. In March, one study found that 90 percent of particles go right through the masks that Biden and his fascist regime keeps pushing. And https://ipatriot.com/latest-study-finds-even-n95-masks-useless-against-covid/in December, another study found that even the left’s favored N95 masks don’t help anything.
But there are far more of these studies. Indeed, there are nearly no studies at all that show that masks are an effective prophylactic. But, before this scamdemic and the political promotion of masks, it was well accepted by medical science that masks were not effective in preventing disease.
Per Just the News:
Published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, run by the British evidence-based medicine charity Cochrane, the study raises new doubts about ongoing mask mandates and public health recommendations worldwide.
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The team added 11 new randomized controlled trials and “cluster-RCTs,” which randomize groups of subjects rather than individuals, to its prior review from November 2020, for a total of 78 studies. The additions included COVID pandemic trials: two from Mexico and one each from England, Norway, Denmark and Bangladesh, the latter two well known internationally.
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them “exactly as instructed.”
Mainstream media overlooked red flags in the Bangladeshi mask study, which found no effect for surgical masks under age 50 and a difference of only 20 infections between control and treatment groups among 342,000 adults.
Cochrane itself had a spat with Instagram in November 2021 over sharing purported COVID misinformation, even though the group does not accept “commercial or conflicted funding” and its funding partners include the U.S. National Institutes of Health and U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants
— Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence).
— Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
Cochrane reviews are the 'gold standard' in evidence-based medicine. They follow a rigorous methodology and only consider high quality evidence. As such, the review included a limited number of studies and has moderate power to detect small effects.
2/— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) January 31, 2023
Just the News has much more, so if you would like to drill down more on the evidence, go on over to its report HERE.
Suffice to say, it is another of hundreds of kinks in the armor of the all-mighty, mythical mask.
If you are still wearing a mask in any circumstance, you are a believer in mythology, not science.
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