Category: Mandatory Masking
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Impracticality turning to stupidity
In this March 26, 2021 article for The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jose Ma. Montelibano reacts to the Ivermectin debate and the use of masks in the Philippines. Of Ivermectin he says, “Why are there so many believers when Ivermectin remains largely unknown to most Filipinos? One simple reason. Ivermectiv offers hope.” On masks, Montelibano had…
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US data show masks make no impact on COVID spread
In this March 7, 2021 article published by WND, we see a graph of daily COVID cases in the US overlaid with the data on mask wearing collected by YouGov. Based on the graph, we see clearly that the cases rose and fell even as mask wearing remained consistent. The article also shows that despite…
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Should children be wearing masks?
The following research was written by Silke Schwarz, Ekkehart Jenetzky, Hanno Krafft, Tobias Maurer, and David Martin, and was published on Research Square on January 5, 2021. The study utilized data from Germany’s first registry which records children’s experiences in mask-wearing. Data for the study included reports for 25,930 children as of October 26, 2020.…
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Rand Paul: Those immune to coronavirus should throw mask away
This article published by The Washington Examiner reports on an interview given by Sen. Rand Paul to Fox News. In the interview, Sen. Paul says, “what I tell people is use common sense, if you’ve had the disease, or you’ve been vaccinated…throw your mask away and tell Dr. Fauci to take a leap…they will never…
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Danish mask study now published: Masks do not reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection
A randomized controlled trial involving 4,862 participants shows that masks do not protect mask wearers from SARS-CoV-2 infection. The researchers gave this conclusion: “Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in…
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Journals are refusing to publish a mask study from Denmark
Researchers from Denmark want to know if masks can slow the spread of infectious disease, so they conducted what may be the only randomized trial designed to determine whether masks can actually protect against COVID-19. The study involved 6,000 participants who were randomly assigned to wear face masks or not for 30 days. Participants were…
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Twitter removes anti-mask tweet by Scott Atlas
Dr. Scott Atlas tweeted the following[efn_note]We have retained the spelling used by Atlas on his tweet[/efn_note]: “Masks work? NO: LA, Miami, Hawaii, Alabama, France, Phlippnes, UK, Spain, Israel.” He adds: “WHO:’widesprd use not supported’ + many harms; Heneghan/Oxf CEBM:’ despite decades, considerble uncertainty re value’; CDC rvw May: ‘no sig red’n in inflnz transm’n’; learn…
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WHO mask study seriously flawed
This article initially published by the Swiss Policy Research last September 9, 2020 and updated September 13, 2020 debunks the WHO-commissioned study published by The Lancet last June 2020. According to SPR, the Lancet study was utilized by various governments as basis for mandatory masking policies, but this study is flawed on various levels and…
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Why Sweden has not mandated the use of masks
Andrew Tegnell sees no point in mandating the use of face masks as infection numbers in Sweden continue to decline, cites this article written by Jackie Salo for the New York Post. It is a well known fact that Tegnell has been skeptic of the role of face masks in controlling virus outbreaks, especially since countries…
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The surgical mask is a bad fit for risk reduction
The following article was written for CMAJ by Canadian physician and poet, Shane Neilson. Written in 2016, Neilson exposed the fear-based messaging proliferated by mask wearing. He says that mask wearing prepares us for a future pandemic. In addition, Nielsen says, mask wearing is aimed at cultivating collective anxiety which rationalizes the intensification of risk…
