In a PACKED Senate chamber with stenographers and colleagues just feet away from him, Senator Rand Paul refuses to put on a mask - and puts the health of everyone around him at risk.
This isn’t political. WEAR. A. MASK
He already had COVID-19.
what is Rand Paul running from? maybe it's the truth. HE'S RUNNING FROM THE TRUTH!
What truth? I still haven't found any scientific evidence that masks even work.
You haven't been looking.
Masks don't stop viruses....
They prevent you from SPREADING the virus! Why are there so many dumbasses on both sides on this message board? Do they prevent yu from getting it? NO! I was wearing a mask long before COVID.
No...it doesn't....the virus can get through the mask, dumb ass.
It doesn't on the way out, dumbass. It has to be carried by water droplets in a sneeze or cough. Where the **** have you retards been hiding? Siberia?
Show me the scientific peer-reviewed paper, showing that masks work.
Give me one PEER-REVIEWED.... showing clear evidence that masks prevent the spread of Covid-19 or anything for that matter.
Let me help you out.
www.cebm.net
Let's read the actual evidence.
Despite the clear requirement to carry out further large, pragmatic trials a decade later,
only six had been published: five in healthcare workers and one in pilgrims. 3 This recent crop of trials added 9,112 participants to the total randomised denominator of 13,259 and
showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.
Six published randomized trials have been done, and all of them showed ZERO.....>> ZERO << significant effect at interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza.
And Covid-19, is far more contagious than influenza.
Only one randomised trial (n=569) included cloth masks. This trial found ILI rates were 13 times higher in Vietnamese hospital workers allocated to cloth masks compared to medical/surgical masks, RR 13.25, (95%CI 1.74 to 100.97)
and over three times higher when compared to no masks, RR 3.49 (95%CI 1.00 to 12.17). 4
Let me translate that for you. They found that in this trial, that infections were actually HIGHER with cloth masks, than not having a mask at all.
After adjusting for other factors, ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) remained significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group.
The bottom line remains simply this.... there is zero evidence that masks work. Zero. None.
Now if you want to give peer reviewed scientific data, not some people giving estimates based on 3rd hand data, that wasn't collected based on scientific standards.... I will be glad to read the scientific data you present to me.
Otherwise, the science does not support your claim at all.
I repeat... the absolute best scientific data we have, shows ZERO NET BENEFIT TO MASK WEARING. ZERO. NONE.
In fact, if anything, masks make you more likely to get infected.