Statistics show wearing masks CAUSES more infections, deaths fm covid than NOT wearing them, suckers

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COVID Infections and Deaths in Mask Mandate New Zealand Soar Above Those in Mask Free Australia​

by Paul Joseph Watson
July 20th 2022, 6:01 am

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/covi...land-soar-above-those-in-mask-free-australia/

Ubiquitous mask country Singapore also has higher case numbers than Australia.

COVID infections and deaths in New Zealand have soared above those in neighboring Australia, despite New Zealand maintaining strict mask mandates and Australia dropping them almost entirely.

Wow, it’s almost like masks don’t work. Surely not?

The data is explained in a Daily Mail article entitled ‘The astonishing data that may prove masks don’t work’.

Masks are mandatory everywhere in Singapore and Kiwis are forced to wear them in all public indoor spaces.

In comparison, Australia mostly abandoned mask mandates and they are only still compulsory on public transport and in care homes and healthcare centers.

However, both Singapore and New Zealand now have higher case numbers than Australia.

Per capita COVID death rates in New Zealand also overtook Australia in March, despite its strict mask mandates, and have remained higher ever since.


“In Singapore, death rates dropped below Australia in April after racing ahead between October and Christmas, but are now surging wildly and are set to overtake Australia once more,” reports the Daily Mail.

“Of course, this is only the latest example that shows masks do little or nothing to prevent the spread of airborne viruses, and may make things worse,” writes Will Jones.

"The astonishing data that may prove masks DON'T work"
Not very astonishing, but more acknowledgement is welcome.https://t.co/e15BPCDZ9H
— Laura Dodsworth (@BareReality) July 19, 2022

The UK government’s own investigation found that the evidence for the efficacy of face masks stopping the spread of COVID-19 in schools is “not conclusive.”

We previously reported on the comments of UK government SAGE adviser Dr Colin Axon, who dismissed masks as “comfort blankets” that do virtually nothing, noting that the COVID-19 virus particle is up to 5,000 times smaller than the holes in the mask.

“The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders’ scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through,” Axon said.

A study in Denmark involving 6,000 participants also found that “there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19,” the Spectator reported.

Despite overwhelming data that masks are useless or may even exacerbate the problem, some countries are already preparing to re-introduce them.

As we highlighted on Monday, Germany is set to re-impose its mask mandate in September despite the summer COVID wave already “losing momentum,” indicating such rules are being made permanent.

 

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California city votes unanimously not to enforce LA County mask mandate​

The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously not to apply an indoor mask mandate​

By Michael Lee | Fox News

Link: https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-city-votes-unanimously-enforce-la-county-mask-mandate

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The Beverly Hills, California, City Council voted unanimously not to enforce a Los Angeles County mask mandate should one be adopted.
"I feel it is our job to lead and I support the power of choice," Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse said after the voter Monday evening, according to reporting from Fox 11.
The comments come as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has publicly weighed the possibility of adopting an indoor mask mandate in the county, which has seen a steady rise in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. The mandate was reportedly set to go into effect Friday, but Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters cases in the country may be leveling off and "we are likely to want to take a pause on moving too quickly on universal indoor masking."
But Beverly Hills, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, decided not to wait around for a decision from the health department.
CDC 'COVID-19 BY COUNTY' TOOL HELPS YOU LOOK UP GUIDELINES BY LOCAL AREAS

A demonstrator protests COVID-19 mandates. (REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo)
"Our job is to be proactive and public about what we believe," Bosse said. "This is a united City Council and community that cares about health. We are not where we were in 2020, and now we need to move forward as a community and be part of the solution."
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger also opposed the potential move to mask mandates, issuing a statement Monday calling into question how effective mask mandates are in stopping the spread of COVID-19.

The sun sets behind the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
"I have not seen any empirical data that conclusively shows that masking mandates make a difference in decreasing or stopping COVID-19 transmission rates," Barger wrote in a statement Monday. "An analysis of Alameda County's June 2022 masking mandate, in fact, concluded it had no significant impact in comparison to its surrounding counties that did not impose a masking mandate. Alameda County dropped this mandate after only three weeks."

 

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COVID-19 masks provided NO PROTECTION during “pandemic,” British government now admits

02/05/2024 // Ethan Huff

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-05-covid-masks-no-protection-british-government-finds.html/

Health officials in the United Kingdom have confessed that the medical-grade masks the government pushed on everyone during COVID are completely useless at protecting people from disease.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published a report covering an investigation into the most popular medical-grade masks that people used during the "pandemic," including the N95, KN95 and FFP2 models that public health authorities said would prevent COVID "droplets" from spreading.

Data was collected up through September 2022 and included at-risk groups such as people with Down's syndrome, some cancer patients and people with immune system disorders.

Scientists looked at a total of 4,371 studies about COVID, not a single one of which addressed the effectiveness of N95 and other equivalent face masks. In fact, at the conclusion of the investigation, researchers were unable to find a single piece of usable scientific evidence to back the wearing of a medical-grade face covering for protection against COVID.

"The review did not identify any studies for inclusion, and so could provide no evidence to answer the research question," the authors wrote. "No studies matching the inclusion criteria were found, so no evidence could be presented."

(Related: Remember all those claims about COVID being spread by "asymptomatic carriers?" It was all a lie.)

Nonexistent mask science​

As you probably well know, the mask debate was a contentious one that raged, generally speaking, between the pro-mask left and the anti-mask right. Seeing someone wearing a mask in public in America became an identifier of a "Democrat," while those showing their faces were generally "Republicans."

The academic and scientific worlds were also split on the matter as the more "progressive" participants supported masks and mask mandates while the more outside-the-box participants supported the freedom to breathe freely.

Lost in all the debate was actual science to support the wearing of masks, science that we now know does not even exist. The UKHSA looked for it but did not find it – and the UKHSA is not a partisan body that necessarily feels strongly one way or another about mask wearing.

Commenting on the new research, University of Oxford professor of evidence-based medicine Carl Heneghan told The Telegraph that it is "a significant failing" that there were never any high-quality trials conducted on the effectiveness of masks.

"I do not understand why there's been a lack of will to do high-quality trials in this area," he said. "We have completely failed to address this issue and I actually consider that to be an issue that the [COVID] inquiry needs to look at."

"For those people at low risk, these questions don't necessarily matter too much, but if you're at high risk, you really want this question to be addressed. You want to know the answer."

It says a lot about the current state of science when masks were pushed and even mandated based on politics and flimsy evidence that barely even constitutes evidence.

"If there's another pandemic around the corner, we still haven't addressed any of these issues," Heneghan added. "We've not learned anything."

Interestingly, the UKHSA had previously published a report claiming that all types of face coverings help to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, claiming that N95 models are the most effective. Now, those previous claims have been voided based on the latest evidence, or lack thereof, concerning face masks.

"It is maybe surprising that there is no conclusive evidence one way or another [as to whether masks work], given that SARS-CoV-2 is perhaps the most studied virus ever, and masking was always a debated topic," commented Dr. Aodhán Breathnach, a Consultant Global Health Microbiologist at UKHSA and a Consultant Medical Microbiologist at St. George's University Hospitals.

COVID masks were a forced ritual, not a legitimate medical intervention. Learn more at Plague.info.

Sources for this article include:

Telegraph.co.uk

NaturalNews.com

 

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Why is the CDC Still Recommending Face Masks for Two Year-Olds?​

BY PROF CARL HENEGHAN AND DR TOM JEFFERSON
23 FEBRUARY 2024 9:00 AM

Link: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/23/why-is-the-cdc-still-recommending-face-masks-for-two-year-olds/





It’s fair to say that mask mandates in children were controversial. They were mandatory in schools across several European countries and German states for the entire 2020-2021 school year until autumn 2021.
In the U.K., secondary school children were required to wear masks only in communal areas, while primary school children were not required to mask up.
So, what does the evidence now say?
A recent systematic review on child mask mandates for COVID-19 concluded that “real-world effectiveness of child mask mandates against SARS-CoV-2 transmission or infection has not been demonstrated with high-quality evidence. The current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID-19”.
The final analysis of the review consisted of 22 studies, none of which were randomised controlled trials. Out of the six observational studies that reported an association between child masking and lower infection rates, all had a critical or serious risk of biases. On the other hand, 16 other observational studies found no association between mask-wearing and infection or transmission.
The Cochrane (A122) Review on physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses also reports the lack of randomised evidence in children.
The review evidence is at odds with the BMJ stance in 2022 that considered masking in schools undervalued and de-emphasised. The BMJ‘s role as a fervent supporter of lockdowns, zero-Covid and masking of children calls into question its impartiality. Such a non-evidence-based approach has only served to support harmful positions against children.
However, the good news is that most children made pragmatic, reasoned judgements: headteachers reported that only one-third of secondary school children wore classroom masks in December 2021.

The Lockdown Files of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages revealed that in the U.K., Hancock, Whitty and Johnson knew full well that non-medical masks do very little to prevent virus transmission.
The decision to instigate mask mandates in English schools was made to appease Nicola Sturgeon.

While most countries have removed mandates, the U.S. remains an outlier as the CDC continues to recommend them for two-year-olds and upward.

As an outlier, its continuation of masking children has drawn concerns about the U.S. policy and its scientific reasoning.
The U.S. policy on such young children is without precedent. There are negative impacts on speech, language and learning, mental health and social-emotional well-being. Randomised controlled trials report problems with heat, humidity, pain and shortness of breath in children with masks.
Despite the lack of evidence and the known harms, the CDC persists in its advice.
Part of the reason may be the reluctance to admit past errors: Paul D. Thacker’s Disinformation Chronicle reports:

The CDC has not put out quality science on masks through its journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)… Federal officials seem afraid to run a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on masks, likely because they suspect the results will show masks don’t prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.

The former CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky, undoubtedly added to the wrong policy advice, as she said masks lacked equipoise – a supposed lack of conflicting evidence. Therefore, American advice comes down to what the CDC Director believed, not what she could prove.
School policy varied depending on which U.S. state you lived in. Children became political footballs who bore the brunt of the pandemic mistakes. The U.S. should put the needs of children first and remove the advice to mask children until high quality evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of intervening. The U.S. Academy of Paediatrics needs to start the ball rolling by retracting its advice based on incorrect statements.

The decision to mandate masks for schoolchildren was driven solely by political motives. Its implementation and interpretation varied depending on the region, leading to the distribution situation. This saga is mired in conflicting opinions, egos and politics. Moving forward, we must prioritise an evidence-based approach: ensuring interventions involving children are always made in their best interests.
Prof. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
Stop Press: A study published by Cambridge University Press found higher self-reported Covid infection rates in mask users than non-mask users: 33% higher in those who wore a mask often or sometimes and 40% higher in those who wore a mask almost always or always.