Use of face masks did not impact COVID-19 incidence among 10–12-year-olds in Finland

medRxiv | 7 Apr 2022 Aapo Juutinen, Emmi Sarvikivi, Päivi Laukkanen-Nevala, Otto Helve doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.04.22272833 In fall 2021 in Finland, the recommendation to use face masks in schools for pupils ages 12 years and above was in place nationwide. Some cities recommended face masks for younger pupils as well. Our aim was to compare COVID-19 incidence among 10–12-year-olds between cities with different recommendations…

Masks fail their biggest test in Bangladesh

Steve Kirsch | 15 Apr 2022 Masks do not work to protect anyone from SARS-CoV-2. It’s all based on sloppy science. We asked the senior author of the Bangladesh mask study to defend his study. He failed. Badly. Very badly. Summary The CDC just decided to continue the transportation mask mandate for another two weeks. Dr.…

Yet Another Paper Fails to Find that Masks Do Anything

Eugyppius | 13 Apr 2022 A natural experiment in Catalonia is the latest piece of evidence that masking is a worthless intervention. As long as we’re talking about masks, let’s have a look at this paper out of Catalonia: Unravelling the Role of the Mandatory Use of Face Covering Masks for the Control of SARS-CoV-2 in…

CDC Promotes Another Misleading Mask Study

Ian Miller | 22 Mar 2022 The CDC clearly disgraced itself during the pandemic. At this point, that’s not particularly newsworthy — it’s become an expectation that the CDC will release a new flawed “study” every few weeks in an effort to promote their policy goals. The interventions and policies championed by the CDC haven’t worked,…

Why did CDC repeatedly tout ‘flawed’ mask study?

Sharyl Attkisson | 11 Mar 2020 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky demanding an explanation as to why she repeatedly used a flawed mask study to justify a policy affecting millions of school children. Johnson is the lead Republican on the Senate subcommittee on…

Hypocrisy of elites

Bad Cattitude | 7 Dec 2021 Excuse me if this is an obvious question to which everyone knows the answer and kittens do not, but: do you ever worry that maybe none of these people actually believe a word that they say? because it seems like probably these are all just poses by posers. and…

Masks don’t work.

Steve Kirsch | 27 Nov 2021 So why were “experts” hailing the Bangladesh mask study as proof that masks work? Because they were so desperate to point to something to support their belief system–even a study that was worthless. We all know masks don’t work for respiratory viruses as I’ve pointed out before. If masks started…

The Magical Thinking and Dangers of Masks

Mercola | 24 Nov 2021 STORY AT-A-GLANCE The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lied about masks’ effectiveness when CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tweeted, “Masks can help reduce your chance of #COVID19 infection by more than 80%” Walensky didn’t give a reference for her claim, but a large study from researchers at Yale,…