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Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence


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2021 Jan 30, 5:13pm   4,645 views  210 comments

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https://swprs.org/covid-masks-review/

There is increasing evidence that the novel coronavirus is transmitted, at least in indoor settings, not only by droplets but also by smaller aerosols. However, due to their large pore size and poor fit, cloth masks cannot filter out aerosols (see video analysis below): over 90% of aerosols penetrate or bypass the mask and fill a medium-sized room within minutes.
The WHO admitted to the BBC that its June 2020 mask policy update was due not to new evidence but “political lobbying”: “We had been told by various sources WHO committee reviewing the evidence had not backed masks but they recommended them due to political lobbying. This point was put to WHO who did not deny.” (D. Cohen, BBC Medical Corresponent).
To date, the only randomized controlled trial (RCT) on face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection in a community setting found no statistically significant benefit (see above). However, three major journals refused to publish this study, delaying its publication by several months.
An analysis by the US CDC found that 85% of people infected with the new coronavirus reported wearing a mask “always” (70.6%) or “often” (14.4%). Compared to the control group of uninfected people, always wearing a mask did not reduce the risk of infection.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota found that the infectious dose of SARS-CoV-2 is just 300 virions (viral particles), whereas a single minute of normal speaking may generate more than 750,000 virions, making cloth face masks unlikely to prevent an infection.
Japan, despite its widespread use of face masks, experienced its most recent influenza epidemic with more than 5 million people falling ill just one year ago, in January and February 2019. However, unlike SARS-CoV-2, the influenza virus is easily transmitted by children, too.
Austrian scientists found that the introduction, retraction and re-introduction of a face mask mandate in Austria had no influence on the coronavirus infection rate.
In the US state of Kansas, the 90 counties without mask mandates had lower coronavirus infection rates than the 15 counties with mask mandates. To hide this fact, the Kansas health department tried to manipulate the official statistics and data presentation.
Contrary to common belief, studies in hospitals found that the wearing of a medical mask by surgeons during operations didn’t reduce post-operative bacterial wound infections in patients.
During the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic, the use of cloth face masks among the general population was widespread and in some places mandatory, but they made no difference.
Asian countries with low covid infection rates, most of them neighboring China, benefited not from face masks but mainly from early border closures. This is confirmed by Scandinavian countries Norway, Finland and Denmark, which didn’t introduce mask mandates but closed borders early and saw very low covid infection and death rates, too.
German scientists found that in and on N95 (FFP2) masks, the novel coronavirus remains infectious for several days, much longer than on most other materials, thus significantly increasing the risk of infection by touching or reusing such masks.

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32   Onvacation   2021 Feb 3, 11:02am  

FACE MASKS.... A DIFFERENT APPROACH 🤣🤣🤣
33   WookieMan   2021 Feb 3, 11:03am  

WineHorror1 says
WookieMan says
We'll see if Trump capitalizes on it. I think he will.

How?

Not 100% sure right now. He could have nuked multiple places over 4 years. Never did (like they thought he would). I don't think he likes politics and I think he made his "waves" in the system so to speak. We'll see. Like I said, I'm 50/50 there's something still on the horizon that changes the future for a while. Maybe I'm optimistic, but we need something.

Biden was on TV this morning and I literally fell back asleep listening to him. No motivation. No power. No drive. No nothing. I hate the rah rah corporate shit, but Biden has no game to motivate a heroin addict 2 days off his last binge. He's a loser that can't motivate a druggie with a bag of dope.
34   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Feb 3, 12:48pm  

Faucci went from 60-65% herd immunity last April to 90% vaccination just now.
35   WookieMan   2021 Feb 3, 2:18pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Faucci went from 60-65% herd immunity last April to 90% vaccination just now.

Fauci should get into a car accident. That's all.
36   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Feb 3, 8:22pm  

Yeah, my wife was like "I can't wait until we get to 60% so I can sing again" this afternoon.

I had to lay the bad news on her about the new 90% target.
37   WookieMan   2021 Feb 3, 8:32pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Yeah, my wife was like "I can't wait until we get to 60% so I can sing again" this afternoon.

I had to lay the bad news on her about the new 90% target.

It will happen sooner than you think. May or June. They just couldn't flip the switch that fast. It would have been too obvious.

Fact is there's zero way for you, myself or even the MSM to verify who the fuck has gotten poked. I know more people with positive tests for Covid than have gotten the poke (not a vaccine) yet I think close to 1M have gotten it in IL. Herd immunity is on the horizon regardless and they're just scaring us with different "strains" now. It goes away late spring. Quote me.

I unfortunately don't see masks going away anytime or maybe ever. This is a prediction I hope I'm wrong on. But planes, trains, buses, etc. I think masks are here to stay. I think masks in public places don't go away. Most places won't enforce it, but cities and urban areas are going to suck I think. Coastal blue states are looking at a rough go of it is my guess.
38   Onvacation   2021 Feb 3, 8:36pm  

WookieMan says
It would have been too obvious.

It's pretty fucking obvious.

I do want to lose the mask and eat inside, but I don't want the election fraud to go uninvestigated.
39   WookieMan   2021 Feb 3, 8:57pm  

Onvacation says
WookieMan says
It would have been too obvious.

It's pretty fucking obvious.

I do want to lose the mask and eat inside, but I don't want the election fraud to go uninvestigated.

So can you really not eat inside in CA then? And have to have a mask to get in? It is so different everywhere. Boggles my mind. My county inside is fine and we all walk in mask free and not a peep from anyone or any Karen. Was that way since mid May. Encountered the same in TN around the same time, so I'm sure the same now. FL is the same unless you go to a highly rated/popular place, then they'll ask you to wear it to the table. You can refuse and they'll still let you in, they just ask out or fear of the Karen reviewer.

I won't ever live in an area with more than 10k people after this. Not a chance. Every rural place I have been is normal. No exception. I can't wait to get down to the Panhandle FL in mid March. Might do Bozeman and do some snowboarding early March though word is the CA commies are coming there en mass. Definitely changed in the 15 years or so since I've been going. Not in a good way. They need to get some god damn snow though.

February is going to suck, but it's short at least. I'll have to pick some brains here though. Might be doing a Tahoe trip late summer (early August). Going heavy camping this summer with the kids at their age. Small window for that before they age out of it and it's no longer fun.
40   HeadSet   2021 Feb 4, 9:26am  

If they do claim that Biden finally got Covid under control and we can now open up, that will eliminate the need for mail-in voting for the 2022 midterms. I wonder what the Dems will come up with by then to preserve the mail-in voting and the associate fraud.
41   Onvacation   2021 Feb 4, 9:49am  

HeadSet says
mail-in voting for the 2022 midterms.

Fuck that!

It's time for purple finger voting!


We already have the face covered.
42   WookieMan   2021 Feb 4, 9:50am  

HeadSet says
If they do claim that Biden finally got Covid under control and we can now open up, that will eliminate the need for mail-in voting for the 2022 midterms. I wonder what the Dems will come up with by then to preserve the mail-in voting and the associate fraud.

It's why masks aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. Others have said it. The mask equals fear.

Unless they keep mail in voting, not a chance in hell they keep the house in 2022. Probably lose the Senate as well. And now they'll fuck around with an impeachment of a private citizen. They cheated their way to leverage and I do think they may fuck it up. We'll see.

If Trump wants '24, he needs to start now and hard. If he doesn't we need a Libertarian/conservative that gets the ball rolling now. Need to get into the mindset that this is a 3-4 year election cycle at this point. Organize and not have this 20 person primary bull shit again.
43   Eric Holder   2021 Feb 4, 10:01am  

WookieMan says
Need to get into the mindset that this is a 3-4 year election cycle at this point.


The last one was for sure: fucking demon rats started it even before Trump was sworn in.
44   Onvacation   2021 Feb 4, 10:59am  

Eric Holder says


The last one was for sure: fucking demon rats started it even before Trump was sworn in.

It's not Dem vs Rep. It's rulers vs ruled. The owners have been slowly stripping our rights for decades, longer than that actually. Endless wars and emergencies have diminished our rights since before the fed was instituted.

The owners want slaves who will shut up and do their bidding. They divide us with stupid shit. Race, class, sex, taxes, mean speak, they have us argueing over stupid shit to keep us distracted while they lower the boot on our necks.

Dramatic? they've already suspended the first amendment, masked and censored us. They, the owners.

Don't demonize the democrats and republicans. Pity them for being brainwashed into a system that cares nothing for them.
45   Patrick   2021 Feb 4, 10:59pm  

This ^^^
48   Onvacation   2021 Feb 8, 6:53am  

We have reached a milestone in California. One out of every 1,000 residents (legal?) Have now died with the Wuhan. So we have shut down the state, killed small business, and stopped educating our children for almost a year now for a cold. Not even a very bad cold.
49   WookieMan   2021 Feb 8, 8:19am  

Onvacation says
We have reached a milestone in California. One out of every 1,000 residents (legal?) Have now died with the Wuhan. So we have shut down the state, killed small business, and stopped educating our children for almost a year now for a cold. Not even a very bad cold.

CA is bad from what I hear from you all here. Deep blue states seem to have it the worst. IL is different because Chicago is like an island. The rest of the state gives zero fucks what fat fuck Prickzker dictates. Chicago just listens like every leftist hell hole does. I wish you guys luck. It's going to be a long battle, especially on the mask front where you guys are in CA. Haven't put a mask on since mid Jan. on a flight and late November for the same. So different in different parts of the country.
50   Onvacation   2021 Feb 8, 8:22am  

WookieMan says
Onvacation says
We have reached a milestone in California. One out of every 1,000 residents (legal?) Have now died with the Wuhan. So we have shut down the state, killed small business, and stopped educating our children for almost a year now for a cold. Not even a very bad cold.

CA is bad from what I hear from you all here.

It's bad because we are ruled by tyrants. 0.1 percent death rate for a cold is not bad, it's normal.
52   zzyzzx   2021 Feb 8, 10:21am  

WookieMan says
Fauci should get into a car accident. That's all.


Or he coud die from AIDS.


53   Onvacation   2021 Mar 2, 1:39pm  

THE INCREDIBLE LIE ABOUT COVID-19 ASYMPTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
54   WookieMan   2021 Mar 2, 2:08pm  

It's going away and we'll all be labeled conspiracy theorist. The vaccine fixed it and we're nuts. It's a game. The end of it will be May/June. It's already happening.
55   Booger   2021 Mar 2, 2:15pm  

Texas is going maskless.
57   Patrick   2021 Mar 2, 10:02pm  

WookieMan says
It's going away and we'll all be labeled conspiracy theorist. The vaccine fixed it and we're nuts. It's a game. The end of it will be May/June. It's already happening.


Yup. That was the plan from the beginning no doubt.

Kill the economy, get Trump out with cheating if need be (and they did find it necessary in the end), put in the corpse and the whore as puppets, then WHO changes "guidelines" so that "cases" plummet at the same time the "vaccine" is being administered to large numbers.

15 new "vaccine" billionaires are very happy about the success of the plan, as is China, Bezos, and all the other tech oligarch scum who are censoring dissent.
59   Patrick   2021 Mar 9, 6:18pm  

I have taken to rolling my eyes and shaking my head when anyone sees me coming and pulls up their face diaper.

I think it works better than words.
60   GlocknLoad   2021 Mar 9, 6:33pm  

Patrick says
I have taken to rolling my eyes and shaking my head when anyone sees me coming and pulls up their face diaper.

I think it works better than words.

My wife and I were walking the dog earlier this evening. Another dog owner and makshole tried to talk to us, we simply kept going.
61   Onvacation   2021 Mar 12, 9:40pm  

Karen got Played!
62   Patrick   2021 Mar 23, 8:39pm  

https://thewallwillfall.org/2020/06/23/masks-dont-work-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covid-19-social-policy/

vanessa beeley / June 23, 2020
By Denis Rancourt, PhD

Masks and respirators do not work.

There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.

Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.
63   Patrick   2021 Mar 23, 8:40pm  

To force human beings to muzzle their face with a layer of cloth under the pretense that we are protecting against a virus with a >99% survival rate for most people is a mechanism of social and psychological control, and if we are to retain our sovereignty and identity, we must reject the oppression. We are in an existential battle for freedom.
64   GNL   2021 Mar 23, 8:45pm  

Patrick says
We are in an existential battle for freedom.

There is no doubt.
65   WookieMan   2021 Mar 23, 9:07pm  

I wear a neck gaiter. Not over my face just around the neck when in new places. I was happy to get chewed out by this 60ish year old dude in the elevator today of all places. He asked why the fuck I had it on. Lol. I’m on vacation and really don’t have the time or want to deal with Karen’s so I just throw the gaiter on.

Besides when we were in Mexico, the Panhandle FL is basically at 90% normal. They’re down to just Karen’s wearing masks. Going out to eat most the staff isn’t wearing a mask at this point. Zero customers are either.

Weather is shit this week though. Kind of pissed about that.
66   Onvacation   2021 Mar 23, 9:12pm  

Patrick says
To force human beings to muzzle their face with a layer of cloth under the pretense that we are protecting against a virus with a >99% survival rate for most people is a mechanism of social and psychological control, and if we are to retain our sovereignty and identity, we must reject the oppression. We are in an existential battle for freedom.

AGREED!

Unfortunately I do not have the fortitude to forego employment and food to violate my employers and the stores mask rules. But I sure as hell won't mask outside.
67   Onvacation   2021 Mar 23, 10:53pm  

TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!
68   GNL   2021 Mar 24, 8:29am  

Onvacation says
TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!

Can you give us the link please?
69   GNL   2021 Mar 24, 8:29am  

Onvacation says
TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!

Can you give us the link please?

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