Today on CNN, after devastating study citations from the interviewer showing that masks don't work, Fauci responded: "but masks work on an individual level".
But this is nonsense. Here's why.
To do science on masks, you have a masked group and an unmasked group. You compare the rate of infection in each group. This is called a randomized trial. This is how science is done.
If the rate of infection is the same, then masks don't work. This was what the studies on masks showed. No difference.
Now, there is simply no such thing as scientific studies showing that "masks work at the individual level".
Fauci either doesn't understand how science works or he is lying and making things up.
It really is that simple. Fauci is saying gobbledygook in order to keep the idea of masks alive. It's incredibly shameful for Fauci to abuse science in this way. But it's par for the course in the way he has communicated science throughout the entire pandemic.
The tweet is here. And it does indeed seem to match up nicely with all those studies testing the effect of masks(leave out the physical downsides for now). There are some claiming that recent report saying 'masks don't work' was 'taken out of context', etc. Kind of hard to take this out of context:
Medical/surgical masks compared to no masks
We included 12 trials (10 cluster‐RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community). Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence).
That's from the abstract. And pretty straightforward. Which won't matter, because the panic-mongers need people panicked and scared.
2 comments:
Masks...when PROPERLY used...can mitigate the transfer of pathogens. That's why we use them in hospitals regularly. But they are rarely use properly in the real world by average people. Thus, they are essentially pointless. You'd get far better results pushing hard for proper hand hygiene. But the goal really isn't public health. It's CONTROL. Like everything the criminal commie left does. Forcing us to wear masks is a visible, visceral symbol of their ability to control people and get them accustomed to blindly obeying the ridiculous edicts they promulgate. It's part of the lefts WAR ON FREEDOM.
In early 2020 (Feb or Mar) there still existed, on the CDC.gov website, a Q&A about masks published in 2012. It is no longer there. It discussed the difference in size between bacteria (large) and virus (small) and the N95 masks. As understood in that Q&A, an N95 mask would stop nearly 100% of bacteria but only stop viruses if they were embedded in mucuous, e.g. a sneeze or wet cough.
Its not a war, its a Romanesque decimation.
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