Just like everyone (well, everyone who can think straight after all the hype) says: cloth masks are a joke. Would you use panty hose to protect against U-235 exposure? Hm. similar analogy to virus vs cloth mask...very similar.
The alpha variant was much less contagious. And, I have no problem using hand disinfectants made available by some places in public accommodation. I even tend to rub some on the outside of the mask while waiting for it to dry off my hands.Long story short, the answer is no.
"In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive. Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than hand hygiene alone, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than nothing, and one found that cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks."
Do Masks Work?
“Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!” So tweeted then–surgeon general Jerome Adams on February 29, 2020, adding, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.” Two days later, Adams said, “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces...www.city-journal.org
www.npr.org
Long story short, the answer is no.
"In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive. Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than hand hygiene alone, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than nothing, and one found that cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks."
Do Masks Work?
“Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!” So tweeted then–surgeon general Jerome Adams on February 29, 2020, adding, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.” Two days later, Adams said, “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces...
www.cdc.gov
That is the definition of cherrypicking ...shithead
If only you would do that
Whoever knew that healthcare could be so complicated.The CDC put in a little aside, that "maybe" the corona virus was somehow different than every other virus. . .
. . . but that statement was unsupported by all the research.
They have known for fifty years that masks don't do shit. That is why BSL4 labs have the protocols that they do.
Anyone that has any amount of critical reading skills, would understand by reading the CDC's own literature, that their own experts don't believe masks contain an infectious spread anymore than a population that is not masked.
Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Policy Review
Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures
Jingyi Xiao1, Eunice Y. C. Shiu1, Huizhi Gao, Jessica Y. Wong, Min W. Fong, Sukhyun Ryu, and Benjamin J. Cowling
Author affiliations: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures
Pandemic Influenza—Personal Protective Measureswwwnc.cdc.gov
