Scientific Evidence Proves Masks Don't Work [there are no randomized studies for cloth, surgical, or N95 masks showing they stop COVID] and in 2020 Govt Health Authorities Around the World Agreed
/From [HERE] and [KIRSCH] The Scientific evidence suggests face masks as worn by the general public do not work.
Government health ministers around the world said in 2020 face masks as worn by the general public do not work. They are telling you to wear them because it creates fear and it keeps the threat of a virus in everyone's mind.
Healthy people with no symptoms should not be wearing masks because asymptomatic people cannot spread a virus they do not have. https://www.thehardtruth.co.uk/asymptomatic-transmission
Dr. Paul E. Alexander, a Canadian epidemiologist, wrote: “Surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are, have absolutely no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus, and current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful.” (American Institute for Economic Research, Feb. 11, 2021.)
‘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 (<2.5μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle. The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.’ — DR. D. G. Rancourt, Ontario Civil Liberties Association, former tenured and Full Professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Canada (11 April, 2020)
“I cannot recall any time in human history when nearly universal use of masks throughout society has successfully controlled the spread of disease,” Dr. Mikovits said. “The data support the opposite. That is, masks suppress the immune system, render the mist vulnerable to infection, and amplify more viruses in the compromised who become victims and further spread the disease among family and close contacts” - Dr. Judy Mikovits
Literally there are dozens of articles, videos and studies by doctors, OSHA inspectors, professors and health professionals which show that masks worn by the general public do not stop the spread of a virus in fact they contribute to the virus spreading and to lowering your immune system. Cases and deaths rose in every country after mask mandates where brought in, shouldn’t it have been the opposite. Masks should have been brought in at the height of the covid cases and deaths in March\April not when there was no cases and deaths in July 2020. They were brought in at this time to keep the fear in the minds of the public that the virus is still among us when it actually was not. The wearing of masks keeps people fearful and that is why governments will not tell you to remove them for a long time, perhaps years. Make people fearful and you can make them do anything.
A 2020 study conducted by a team of Danish researchers has found that face masks have no effect in controlling the spread of COVID-19.
A study conducted by a team of Danish researchers has found that face masks have no effect in controlling the spread of COVID-19. The new finding comes at a time when WHO is strictly advocating people to wear masks to contain the pandemic effectively.
The study which is known as the Danmask-19 trial was conducted in the Spring 2020 with more than 3,000 participants. During the time of this trial, the general public was not asked to wear masks as a precautionary measure to control coronavirus.
Out of the 3,000 participants, 1,500 people were given surgical masks. Researchers also made sure that these participants are changing these masks every eight hours. After one month, PCR tests were conducted on these 1,500 participants, and the results were compared with non-mask users.
The results were pretty surprising, as there was no significant difference between mask users and non-maskers when it comes to getting contracted with coronavirus. According to the study report, 1.8 percent of mask users were infected with coronavirus when compared to 2.3 percent of non-maskers.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
A September 2020 report by the CDC found that more than 70 percent of COVID-positive patients contracted the virus in spite of faithful mask wearing while in public. Moreover, 14 percent of the patients who said they “often” wore masks were also infected. Meanwhile, just four percent of the COVID-positive patients said they “never” wore masks in the 14 days before the onset of their illness.
The authoritative New England Medical Journal investigated the circumstances necessary for contamination. The conclusion of five scientists is that face masks are of no use at all. Infection only occurs after someone has been standing very close to an infected person with symptoms for several minutes.
‘We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection’ — New England Journal of Medicine (21 May, 2020)
Public health authorities define a significant exposure to covid-19 as face-to-face contact within one and a half meters with a patient who has covid-19 symptoms. That contact must be maintained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes).
A large scale study was conducted to determine once and for all, whether face masks are useful for dentists. The result of this historic study was surprising:
'These and other studies show that viruses or other submicron particles are not filtered by face masks.' - Dr John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC
It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses. Viruses are very, very, very small. Microns across. You can only see them with an electron microscope. As such the weave of a cloth mask provides almost no resistance to their passage.
The advice above from the WHO was in March 2020 but they changed their minds later on or where pressured to.
A very extensive study carried out by nine scientists shows that the prolonged use of face masks in fact increases the risk of infection!
'This study is the first RCT of mouth masks, and the results warn against the use of face masks. Moisture retention, re-use of face masks and poor filtration can lead to an increased risk of infection.' - BMJ Medical Report
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
There’s also the issue of other possible complications, such as hypercapnia, an excess of carbon dioxide in the blood caused by re-breathing your own expelled air. It’s also been shown that mask use can exacerbate chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and perhaps other respiratory issues as shown in the study below.
Face mask manufacturers warn: no protection against a virus.
Some honest manufacturers of face masks correctly inform their users that their products offer no protection against covid-19 and other viruses. If these medical ear loop masks - that have multiple layers (!) - don't help, then the self fabricated masks offer no protection either.
On the contrary: they block oxygen flow, which weakens the body and therefor weakens the immune system, which results in higher risk of infection.
47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for COVID and 32 more confirm their negative health effects
Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.
https://swprs.org/face-masks-and-covid-the-evidence/
Peer-reviewed research concludes face masks are harmful to health and ineffective
https://wickedtruths.org/en/peer-reviewed-research-concludes-face-masks-are-useless-and-dangerous
There is this study from the U.S National Library of medicine
The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
The Science is Conclusive: Masks and Respirators do NOT Prevent Transmission of Viruses
Masks Are neither Effective nor Safe: A Summary of the Science
https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/
Watch the video titled ‘Why Masks Do More Harm than Good’ – by Dr. Michael Gaeta -https://vimeo.com/424254660
Ben Swann: The Truth about Face Masks
Masks are neither effective nor safe: A summary of the science
https://www.primarydoctor.org/masks-not-effect
Masks don’t work – a review of science relevant to Covid-19 social policy by Dr. Denis Rancourt PhD
Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks are Unsafe, Ineffective and Immoral
The Study below with over 8000 subjects found masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240287
A recent study in the journal Cancer Discovery found that inhalation of harmful microbes can contribute to advanced stage lung cancer in adults. Long-term use of face masks may help breed these dangerous pathogens.
Wearing the Face Mask: Who is putting our Children at Risk, SARS-CoV-2 or the Actions of our Governments?
COVID-19: Continuous Wearing of Mask Aggravates Risk of Infection. “Psychological Terrorism”? By Dr. Pascal Sacre
Masks: The Science & Myths by Dr. Lee Merrick MD
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/custom_videos/mask-myths/
A very extensive study carried out by nine scientist’s shows that the prolonged use of face masks in fact increases the risk of infection!
'This study is the first RCT of mouth masks, and the results warn against the use of face masks. Moisture retention, re-use of face masks and poor filtration can lead to an increased risk of infection.' - BMJ Medical Report
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
A July 2020 review by the University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine found that there is no evidence that cloth masks are at all effective against virus infection or transmission.
• Jefferson, Tom & Heneghan, Carl, Masking lack of evidence with
politics, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, July 23, 2020. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidencewith-politics/
A July 2020 study by Japanese researchers found that cloth masks “offer zero
protection against coronavirus.”
• Naoya Kon, Cloth face masks offer zero shield against virus, a study shows, The Asahi Shimbun, study by Kazunari Onishi. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13523664
“This experiment reconfirmed that wearing cloth and gauze masks can’t prevent virus infection.”
In an August 2020 article, Denis G. Rancourt, PhD, a Researcher, Ontario
Civil Liberties Association, debunks supposed “studies” purporting to support
compelled face mask use for the general population.
• See Rancourt, Face masks, lies, damn lies, and public health officials: “A growing body of evidence” August 2020. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343399832_Face_masks_lies_damn_lies_and_public_hea [MORE]
