patrick.net

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/study-342000-adults-finds-masks-effective-against-covid-based-20

Researchers shoot holes in study touted for confirming 'masks work' in curbing Wuhan Virus

An acclaimed study on the effectiveness of masks in reducing symptomatic COVID-19 is facing new scrutiny after a researcher highlighted the minuscule infection differences between "treatment" and control groups randomized across 600 Bangladeshi villages.

Accused of design flaws and overstating its findings when it was released in late August, the study's newly released data show only 20 more symptomatic COVID cases in the villages that didn't receive masks and related education, reminders and "role modeling by community leaders."

In a total study population of 342,126 adults, 1,106 people in the control group tested positive, compared to 1,086 in the treatment group. The latter group represented 52% of the study population.

"I have a hard time going from these numbers to the assured conclusions that 'masks work' that was promulgated by the media or the authors after this preprint [not yet peer reviewed] appeared," University of California Berkeley professor Ben Recht, who studies machine learning, wrote in an essay last week.

He said he was frustrated that the "raw number of seropositive cases" was left out of the preprint by researchers led by Yale University economists Jason Abaluck and Ahmed Mobarak, preventing him from "computing standard statistical analyses of their results."

https://needtoknow.news/2021/12/large-uk-supermarket-chains-refuse-to-police-divisive-face-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net

Face mask policies were dropped in England in July, but were re-introduced this week. Iceland and Co-op, two large supermarket chains in the UK, have publicly said they will tell staff not to enforce the new divisive mask rules. They will allow people who are unmasked to enter their stores and will serve them. The British Retail Consortium said that it was the responsibility of the police to enforce the rules. People can make a difference by refusing to comply with unlawful policies.

FuckCCP89 says

I've been having legit panic attacks on flights with the mask and I love flying. I've had some success keeping it off, but I'm thinking about it the whole damn time. And I know it raises my BP in a pressurized cabin like you're on a small mountain.

And let's say masks are effective, it has to restrict O2 intake and you're sucking in the outtake. In what way is that healthy? I should be allowed to take a risk of getting a mundane virus or I can choose to stay home. Not forced to wear a mask by a business or government. Once past TSA I generally don't wear the mask. People don't realize it, but there's no one there to enforce wearing one until you get to the gate and on the plane. And other Karen's likely now know the arguments and how wrong they are. If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.

WookieMan says

If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.

Lol, good response.

Patrick says

WookieMan says

If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.

Lol, good response.

Everything is a contradiction with this pandemic. Literally everything. Masks work. They don't. Vaccines work. They don't. Social distancing works. It doesn't. People have done all this and it's still spreading faster than pre-masking and vaccines. Our group/family that has it now has the sniffles. Kids don't even notice it.

We've always needed to protect the vulnerable. I've said that for a while. I'm on the health push now, but even people of average health and age barely notice anything with covid. If you're fat and or old, I'd worry less about the mask and vaccine and get your ass in shape pretty quick. It's not about breakthrough cases, the vaccine simply doesn't work. You can still get sick. Being healthy is key.

WookieMan says

the vaccine simply doesn't work. You can still get sick. Being healthy is key.

Amen.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doctor-banned-questioning-efficacy-masks-wins-high-court-case?source=patrick.net

Doctor Banned For Questioning Efficacy Of Masks Wins High Court Case

The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect

https://swprs.org/the-face-mask-folly-in-retrospect/?source=patrick.net

It has been known for decades that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly? Twelve reasons.

https://babylonbee.com/news/horrifying-new-haunted-house-just-full-of-regular-people-not-wearing-masks?source=patrick.net

https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pa-virus-outbreak-pennsylvania-mask-mandate-20211210-eoy7dblqpfe6hfy7e6qvvatgby-story.html?source=patrick.net

Pennsylvania Supreme Court throws out Wolf administration’s school mask mandate

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-movie-sequels/comments?source=patrick.net

from the people who brought you: “masks so efficacious they caused a drop in covid in the unmasked states next door”

it’s covid shenanigans part 2:

“a vaccine so good, it makes omicron mild, even in the unvaccinated!”

https://notthebee.com/article/this-guy-on-twitter-asked-for-parents-to-share-the-restrictions-being-placed-on-kids-in-schools-and-the-replies-are-heartbreaking?source=patrick.net

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/a-walk-down-memory-lane/comments?source=patrick.net

the year was 2009. a kinder time. a gentler time. a time when “slate magazine” still knew that masks do not stop SARS or swine flu because the virions are too small and too aerosolozied.




there is still not a single, valid, clinical outcomes RCT that supports masking to stop covid.

there are literally dozens that show inefficacy.

the science here could not be more clear.

there is no data that can convince people who do not care about data and choose to clutch talismans instead so they can feel like they are “doing something.”

this is just the low energy path to profess tribal allegiance and signal virtue.




it will only stop when you make it stop.

disobey.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/4968557/?source=patrick.net

Airline CEOs: Drop the air-travel mask mandate

https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/12/read-pennsylvania-supreme-court-ends-school-mask-mandate/

https://covidreason.substack.com/p/16-states-where-kids-breathe-freely?source=patrick.net

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ceos-of-two-major-airlines-question?source=patrick.net

CEOs of two major airlines question the need for mask mandates
They are absolutely right. Is anyone listening?

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/making-more-swiss-cheese-of-the-mask?source=patrick.net

and they are STILL selling this bill of shoddy goods for one more turn in the limelight. this is the final, grasping desperation of the narrative slipping away. they lost the center because the data become too obvious and the lies too many and too outlandish to support.

masks = fear.

masks = alienation.

masks = signs of submission and that everything is NOT normal.

wearing masks promotes a crisis mentality.

it’s why the panic pushers love them.

sure, the 20% that genuinely adore this and uncritically consume all input from their team will stay onside, but that’s not where the fight is.

the fight is in the center.

that’s what tips. that’s where norms come from. and they are waking up wholesale to the hallucinatory health policy they’ve been tripping on.

New statewide mask mandate AGAIN?! And this: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-exempts-san-francisco-covid-indoor-mask-rule/38529627?source=patrick.net

WTF?

I was grocery shopping last night in SD and plenty of people ignoring this or just don't know lol.

just_passing_through says

I was grocery shopping last night in SD and plenty of people ignoring this or just don't know lol.

Ignoring. CA peeps are catching up with the rest of the country. No one wears masks at much more than 10% if that. Unless you're in a liberal city.

zzyzzx says

That looks badly photoshopped. There are plenty of examples of real mask hypocrisy by Biden and others that a fake one is not needed. This type of manipulated photo just gives ammo for the lefties to call all examples of maskless Dems as fake.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/no-n95-masks-do-not-stop-covid-either?source=patrick.net

https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-erupts-over-video-of-woman-going-off-on-man-for-not-wearing-mask-on-plane-sit-down-karen?utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_content=non_member

A video went viral over Christmas weekend that showed a woman berating an older man on a flight for not wearing a mask while she also had her mask pulled down.

In the video, which has been viewed millions of times, the man, who was seated, tells the woman, who was standing over him, that the reason that his mask was down was because he was eating.

“Stand your a*s up!” the woman yelled. “Stand your a*s up!”

“Sit down, Karen!” the man fired back. “You’re a g*****n, Karen. Sit down!”

After several more moments of an intense back-and-forth between the man and the woman, the flight crew got involved and tried to break up the situation before she struck the man in the face with her hand.

“No you’re going to jail,” the man yelled. “That’s assault. You’re going to jail. As soon as we get to Atlanta, you’re going to jail.”

“Karen!” the man yelled.

The woman then appeared to spit in the man’s face.

“Now you spit on me, now you’re double going to jail,” the man fired back.

“You f***ing piece of s**t,” the woman yelled.

“Put your f***ing mask on!” the woman yelled as she was not wearing a mask. “Put your f***ing mask on!”

Booger says

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/4968557/?source=patrick.net

Airline CEOs: Drop the air-travel mask mandate

Amen. Have a 4 hour flight to Jamaica in a couple weeks. Big (tall) guy in a little seat and masking is miserable. No beer either. Absolutely love travel, but this Covid shit has been awful. What about drinking a beer on a plane spreads covid?

https://brownstone.org/articles/facemasks-are-not-a-mere-inconvenience/?source=patrick.net

https://reason.com/2021/12/17/study-masks-in-schools-junk-science-cdc-walensky/?source=patrick.net

The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science

https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-bans-mrna-vaccine-critic-dr-robert-malone/?source=patrick.net

December 30, 2021
Twitter bans mRNA Covid vaccine critic Dr. Robert Malone
Dr. Malone's ban came just before his scheduled Joe Rogan podcast recording.

Just any day now, they will put up biohazard containers where people will be able to properly dispose of their masks.

Dehumanization.

And it's getting worse:

https://notthebee.com/article/los-angeles-schools-will-no-longer-require-cloth-masks-because-they-are-requiring-n95s-instead?source=patrick.net

Mass Formation Psychosis!

Even evil Googly is losing control.

Patrick says

And it's getting worse:

https://notthebee.com/article/los-angeles-schools-will-no-longer-require-cloth-masks-because-they-are-requiring-n95s-instead?source=patrick.net

It's true. They are going to require N-95 because the cloth and surgical masks were slipping below the kids' noses, allowing them to breathe.

I saw a whole family walking around the marina today. Mother, father, three kids, the youngest probably about 4 years old; all were masked. Omicron fear, I suppose.

Supposed to be in Fairfax County

Paging Headset!

Patrick says

And it's getting worse:

https://notthebee.com/article/los-angeles-schools-will-no-longer-require-cloth-masks-because-they-are-requiring-n95s-instead?source=patrick.net

At least the N95's are actually capable of doing something.