A new study indicates there is no statistically significant difference when it comes to wearing a mask or not outside the home to prevent Covid-19 spread.
According to the study, 1.8% of participants with masks got coronavirus. That compares to 2.1% of participants without masks.
A recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, incident SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with no mask recommendation.
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The study is from the Annals of Internal Medicine. It is titled:
“Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers, A Randomized, Controlled Trial.”
Read the study here:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
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What I find to be interesting is that no one is saying that wearing a mask may be adding to the problem. Is that implausible? After all, people have been wearing them (a whole lot of people, even during riots) and the number of cases have skyrocketed. So, maybe masks are only exacerbating the problem.
Very well could be. I have heard that some people have gotten pleurisy because of wearing masks for prolonged time…
It’s almost a year, not worn a mask, no issues with Covid19, this is a scam to make people sheep and lemmings & sadly many are following. Businesses that force mask wearing I do not go too, These businesses would get more business if they posted signs that read they are not responsible if you get Covid19 entering their store mask-less.
Race Trac gas stations, my bank and other businesses have this posted outside and they are thriving while others are not.
There is no medical mask to date from my research that will prevent air born virus except perhaps a full hazmat uniform with oxygen tank.
It’s just the flu. The numbers don’t add up. I lost a uncle to this flu. 84 years old.. Why? Because he waited tell he was so sick he had to be transported by ambulance to the hospital. He survived for 3 more weeks. Pneumonia set in and that is what he died of. Just as one might with a more common flu or cold.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/17/where-are-all-the-sick-people/?unapproved=3128317&moderation-hash=03bd68761d8e2af30f63d977db002bb2#comment-3128317
The “face mask” is not designed to protect the person wearing the mask so, of course it does not reduce the odds of the wearer catching the disease. The “face mask” is designed to protect other people from catching the disease from the wearer. On the other hand the “N95 face mask” does protect the wearer.
Even the N95 mask only protects as far as it is worn in very precise conditions. You can’t touch things all around your environment with your hands then touch your mask even to adjust it. You have to have frequent mask changing to new sterile masks. And more specific rules that us medical professionals are trained to do. This is all only with N95 masks or better not all these cloth masks etc.
It’s a nice thought to think that we could have control over things like Covid-19 but just that a thought. There is no realistic world application of mask wearing period.
Our immune systems always do better when we eat healthy, exercise and take care of ourselves. People who are high risk do their best to stay away from Gornal public until heard immunity but even that is mostly unrealistic.
Masks for children especially young children is horrifying because there are so many reasons a mask can have adverse effects. All kids should be in school too. People don’t realize that school is literally a life line for so many kids K-12.
For the whole of society the treatment should never be worse then the disease.
Basic logic goes a long way and I know things can be scary but we all have to fight the fear because a society ruled by fear is heartbreaking.
I do not believe in this “pandemic”. I believe this to be just another flu as we have had in the past. Yes people have died from it just as in the past many have died from the flu. Many years ago I had a flu shot and about a month later was terribly sick from the flu, no need for hospitalization but missed Christmas with family.
I do believe it is a propaganda weaponized against the public. It is a great test in controlling huge populations and is being fined tuned for future use. It is destroying many people and especially families who are suffering from unemployment resulting in loss of income which then results in hunger, home eviction and ultimately depression and possibly domestic violence.
I put all blame on the politicians who are using this “pandemic” into scaring and thereby controlling the population into submission with not only the “disease” but fines and arrests.
I have not worn a mask 3 times in my grocery shopping and was first told they would enforce me wearing a mask and second no one,not anyone looked at me sideways. I have felt free again. I urge people to question this “pandemic” and take back their freedom. BTW, I am 71 y/o a real potential victim of C-19 ovid but I have been just fine.
sharyl, you’re my hero. in a former life, i was an award-winning tv news producer. it’s sick what these slobs have done to a once-proud profession.
Yup.
This is not surprising…. considering there are mask mandates all over the country and have been in place for months and all of a sudden the uptick in cases. You don’t need a study or to be a scientist/physician to figure that one out.
GIven that the eye’s are a likely infection site for many viruses — Masks without eye protection are about as useful as a condom with the top cut off.
If this is news to anyone then they haven’t been paying attention. We’ve known for years that masks won’t stop a virus. But…you know…control of the population and all. They need to get us used to obeying the orders of tyrants on the Left. Americans won’t obey such orders unless they’re afraid for their lives…so the Left MUST create a panic throughout the population. Add to the ineffectiveness of masks the fact that the virus has a 99% survival rate and you begin to recognize that this is as big a scam as Biden’s “victory” over Trump…
AMEN!
Sharyl, I wonder if the Covid virus isn’t just chapter 5 of the book. Look, we had the Clinton email offense, then the Russia collusion, then Mueller, then impeachment, then the virus, and now election fraud. Think about it…if all the events are connected and intentional, it’s almost too horrible to contemplate. This is MUCH WORSE than 9/11, especially if it’s true as the scientist/defector stated, China developed Covid 19 as a bio-weapon and intentionally released it. What if they’re in collusion with the dems?
I have the same suspicion!
Pandata.org is data analysis by a group of very serious scientists and they show in the data that masks and shutdowns are ineffective!! S h are it would be great if a serious and legit reporter like you interviewed this group.
Differs from some other studies but remember, you’re not wearing them for yourself, you’re wearing them for the people around you. I didn’t read the study but the article doesn’t address that.
One of a few real journalists left.
Thank you.
Appreciate to post courageously a study. Although it raises many questions. There are microfilter masks and there are masks just for requirements which neither filters any pathogens nor covered enough with openings around.
This from Major General William Gorgas, MD, Â
Surgeon General of the US Army, 1914-18.
During the height of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, there was an Army-Wide MASK requirement. However, soldiers continued to die in drives. Accordingly, General Gorgas issued his opinion regarding masks as follows:
“While the donning of face coverings during this influenza crisis may appeal to many, its benefits in reducing the spread of infection is dubious. Â The only benefit realized, is that it reduces the number of men who chew tobacco, from spitting on the streets. Â Beyond that, the only other benefit realized, is that it makes our citizens constantly aware of the crisis at hand.”