Wearing a Mask Did NOT Slow the Spread of Covid - This Feb 2023 Study Has Convinced the Skeptics.

Monday, February 13, 2023

I don't know why this study has been such a convincer. Today, 2 people told me that masks didn't work during Covid-19. They both saw articles about this study...

Now, a new scientific review — led by 12 researchers from esteemed universities around the world — suggests that widespread masking may have done little to nothing to curb the transmission of COVID-19.

Published by Cochrane Library, the review dug into the findings of 78 randomized controlled trials to determine whether "physical interventions" — including face masks and hand-washing — lessened the spread of respiratory viruses.

When comparing the use of medical/surgical masks to wearing no masks, the review found that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness (nine studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (six studies; 13,919 people)."

Source: www.foxnews.com...

One of those 2 people who shared this "Breaking News" with me today was my wife. The same wife whom I showed CDC Covid-19 hospital study results to, in August 2020. That study stated 85% of those hospitalized with Covid-19 wore their masks all the time in public. That the mask was 85% non-effective. She thought it was a study from some crackpot pretending to be the CDC.

President Donald Trump also cited this study during a Town Hall with Nora _______ on CBS in the Fall of 2020. She ripped him good. No respect.
The anti-Trump, panic-inducing Mainstream Media caused lots of suicides, depression, and damage to relationships in 2020. MSM = Enemy #1, from 2016 to present.

NOW...we get this "Scientific Review" article, and everyone is suddenly anti-mask. Go figure.

-CareWeMust

People stuck in mass formation (mask formation) will still wear them for the rest of their lives. Especially when alone inside of a car, with the windows up, on a vacant road, miles away from another human being.

It's a mental illness.

It was actually said that the mask was an actual incubator of carrying the flu type virus into the air passages of the person wearing the mask and I believe it too because all the elderly people here were gung-ho and wearing mask and they're the ones that really suffered the most.

The mask wearing was a ritual of compliance and shaming to go along with the test of the kool-aid. The 6 footers were not as common as the masked death stares I would gladly receive while going out my business unmasked and unafraid.
I really studied the behaviors and progression of the madness and the whole thing just felt nauseating to me. The woke agendas with transhumanism and the gender mixing and cult like hive mindedness of it all is basically an alien assimilation technique.

But the masks made people BELIEVE they were safer. The virus particles are all over the mask and all over their face, they got airborn while taking the mask off or leaked through the edges.

Most of us here realized this right away, but the health agencies deceived people into believing masks saved people. If someone wants to wear a mask in a store because they are coughing a lot, I will not complain, after all, the coughs won't spread germs all over and get me as sick if I am not right next to them. In some cases masks can help for short term exposure, and I will wear a mask in the doctors office waiting area....those places are full of germs...it is a good thing to do because I do not want to get ten other diseases waiting for an annual checkup. I do not like to pay to get sick.

originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
People stuck in mass formation (mask formation) will still wear them for the rest of their lives. Especially when alone inside of a car, with the windows up, on a vacant road, miles away from another human being.

It's a mental illness.

But, on the good side, they stay in the house, or the asylum, most hours of the day and night. We don't have to interact with them!

originally posted by: musicismagic
It was actually said that the mask was an actual incubator of carrying the flu type virus into the air passages of the person wearing the mask and I believe it too because all the elderly people here were gung-ho and wearing mask and they're the ones that really suffered the most.

In addition, we'll learn that the many "mysterious" illnesses striking school age children over the past year (especially) were caused by wearing masks that accumulated germs, due to multiple uses of that mask.

a reply to: starshift

You have a strong well-rooted belief system. I feel bad for those who already lacked self-esteem, who took their own life in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-related hysterias and shamings. The Doctor on CNN said about 72,000 additional suicides occurred in the USA. Mostly young people. So tragic! (CNN cut him off, because CNN was guilty of ginning up hysterias.)

a reply to: rickymouse

Another TRAGIC development in 2020 was Dr. Anthony Fauci reversing what he said about masks during the H1N1 epidemic, when Obama was in the White House.

He told citizens in 2009-2010, the DANGERS of wearing a mask, outweighed any benefit that might be derived.

We put his 2009-2010 words on ATS and other social media outlets, but the only thing MSM reported every hour of every day was how Fauci wanted us to keep that mask plastered to our faces...both inside and outside.

(They had to help Joe/Nancy/Chuck/Fauci generate maximum fear, so mass mail-in voting would occur...which in turn would make the planned/surgical Nov 2020 election fraud easier to implement.)

a reply to: carewemust

I still see fools driving around in their vehicles alone with masks on now.
I like to wave to them to see how they react.
Most just stare blankly.

originally posted by: carewemust

originally posted by: musicismagic
It was actually said that the mask was an actual incubator of carrying the flu type virus into the air passages of the person wearing the mask and I believe it too because all the elderly people here were gung-ho and wearing mask and they're the ones that really suffered the most.

In addition, we'll learn that the many "mysterious" illnesses striking school age children over the past year (especially) were caused by wearing masks that accumulated germs, due to multiple uses of that mask.

You have absolutely no clue how viruses work.

Viruses start dying the moment they leave the cells in which they are replicating. They are not capable of self-sufficient existence or self-replication outside of host cells. Non-living surfaces don't incubate viruses. In fact, the polypropylene fibers in surgical masks and n-95 masks are specifically designed to incapacitate viruses via electrostatic forces.

You also need to think about the fact that if you exhale a virus onto a mask and then re-inhale it on a later breath you have not increased the viral load in your body.

Your understanding of biology seems to be extremely primitive.

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: carewemust

originally posted by: musicismagic
It was actually said that the mask was an actual incubator of carrying the flu type virus into the air passages of the person wearing the mask and I believe it too because all the elderly people here were gung-ho and wearing mask and they're the ones that really suffered the most.

In addition, we'll learn that the many "mysterious" illnesses striking school age children over the past year (especially) were caused by wearing masks that accumulated germs, due to multiple uses of that mask.

You have absolutely no clue how viruses work.

Viruses start dying the moment they leave the cells in which they are replicating. They are not capable of self-sufficient existence or self-replication outside of host cells. Non-living surfaces don't incubate viruses. In fact, the polypropylene fibers in surgical masks and n-95 masks are specifically designed to incapacitate viruses via electrostatic forces.

You also need to think about the fact that if you exhale a virus onto a mask and then re-inhale it on a later breath you have not increased the viral load in your body.

Your understanding of biology seems to be extremely primitive.

He said "germs".

The survival of bacteria at room temperature was the longest on polyester (up to 206 days), whereas it was up to 90 days for some species on cotton and mixed fibers. Only low inocula of 100 CFU were found on all types of textiles with a short survival time of ≤3 days. Most bacterial species survived better at elevated air humidity. The infectivity of viruses on textiles is lost much faster at room temperature, typically within 2–4 weeks.

NIH

When reviewing how masks went during the times of the Spanish flu, there was a big fad for them as well back then. It took about 2-3 years for most people to get over the worst of it. Looks like a similar kind of trend this time too.

When reviewing the pre covid literature about mask science, they are ineffective with a lot of problems for the most part. For all those people that missed that and had to learn the hard way, they seam to get it now after dealing with the daily grind of consistent masking up.

a reply to: carewemust


Wearing even a simple face cloth does help stop the spread of covid.
Not that it matters considering the infection rate vs variations.
There is a reason I left.
I couldn't in good conscience back up known false reality.
My job was and in a way to stop others from improper and misused guidance from corrupt people.
If you were to have prescribed a medication that would cause a major lawsuit......my arse will be very fast to arrive and and go through you medical practice history and find a way to remove you from your practice.
And I was damn good at it.

First. Viruses don't exist. Check the Germ Theory, look for interviews with Andrew Kauffman or Tom Cowan. Virus theory is just another hoax made up to terrorize the population and to make money. What people mistakenly call "viruses", are simply toxic dead cell debris, that when it goes into your body, it makes you sick. The symptoms you feel are just your body trying to eliminate all that toxicity out of your body.

Second. The masks were brought in to make people sick (as they carry lots of germs and are around your mouth, which is one of the orifices your body uses to clear itself from toxins), as also to reduce the oxygen intake (more sickness), and also to create a psychological barrier between human beings (they wanted us to feel as alone as possible, which leads to more sickness).

Masks did have minimal effect.

It's pretty obvious that they could limit particles from the mask wearer being sprayed all over the place.

But since they don't sit tight on the face, they don't prevent the mask wearer from sucking in particles taht are already floating in the air.

a reply to: flice

You must be joking, what does a person with a mentality like this doing in ATS, I wonder. According to the official mainstream narrative, the "virus" particle is 30 times smaller than the fiber gaps in the masks. It's like trying to stop a grain of sand with a fishing net. Not only you are completely wrong, but you lack of all common sense, literally you it's like you wouldn't know how to play with those baby toys where you have to put the triangle shaped one in the hole with the triangle form.

a reply to: ltrz2025

So how do you go from:

Viruses don't exist

To:

the "virus" particle is 30 times smaller than the fiber gaps in the masks

I do give the germ theory some credit at times. As for a clear and comprehensive picture of exactly what is going on in every case of someone sick is a very diverse and complex picture. Do you think all the genetic sequencing work going on is just a load of rubbish?

Captain obvious and his eleven disciples wrote a paper and ..... I still won’t trust a health ‘expert’
This is damage control because it is always about control.

a reply to: carewemust

originally posted by: kwakakev
a reply to: ltrz2025
So how do you go from:

My full sentence was: "According to the official mainstream narrative, the "virus" particle is 30 times smaller than the fiber gaps in the masks". That's what the CDC and Dr. Fauci tells you. Not what I say.

I was just trying to show that that EVEN if you believe in the ridiculous and stupid Virus theory, the whole mask thing STILL doesn't make sense. Not really hard to understand if you have a bit of text comprehension.