Masks Still Don’t Work

[Weatherman2020]

“More than two years on, the best scientific evidence says that masks don’t stop Covid—and public health officials continue to ignore it as they impose mandates at schools, colleges and military bases.”

California: 99.9% school kids forced to wearing masks all day.

Florida: No kids forced to wear masks.

Zero difference in health statistics.

Masks Still Don’t Work

Masks are back in San Diego, California, where the school board has just decreed that students must cover their faces or be barred from setting foot inside a classroom. Never mind that, per CDC statistics and Census Bureau population figures, more than 99.99 percent of children in California...

www.city-journal.org

 

[Devils_Advocate]

“More than two years on, the best scientific evidence says that masks don’t stop Covid—and public health officials continue to ignore it as they impose mandates at schools, colleges and military bases.”

California: 99.9% school kids forced to wearing masks all day.

Florida: No kids forced to wear masks.

Zero difference in health statistics.

Masks Still Don’t Work

Masks are back in San Diego, California, where the school board has just decreed that students must cover their faces or be barred from setting foot inside a classroom. Never mind that, per CDC statistics and Census Bureau population figures, more than 99.99 percent of children in California...

www.city-journal.org

Their state, so I don’t care…

 

[bluzman61]

It figures. I had Covid last year, almost died. Now I wear a mask only to medical appointments. And I'm doing fine. I haven't gotten any of the vaccines, as well. And I probably won't.

 

[rightwinger]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

 

[Rigby5]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

Wrong.
Reducing the rate of infection increases the death total because it keeps the epidemic from ending.
If that seems counter-intuitive to you, then just read history.
For example, how General Washington ended Smallpox by deliberately spreading it.
By the way, inoculation means deliberate infection, as vaccines were not invented until about 20 years later.

{...
According to the U.S. Library of Congress's Science, Technology, and Business Division, the smallpox inoculations began Jan. 6, 1777, for all of Washington's forces who came through the then-capital of Philadelphia, and through Morristown, New Jersey, following the Battle of Princeton.

Smallpox is a potentially fatal disease that starts with fever and vomiting and an outbreak of ulcers in the mouth and a skin rash. The skin rash turns into highly contagious fluid-filled blisters. The fatality rate was very high.

Inoculations were far more primitive - and dangerous - than today's vaccinations. The most common method was to cut a person's skin and rub the minor incision with a thread or cloth contaminated with a less-virulent version of smallpox, which in this case was a strain known as "variola."

At the time, most English troops were immune to variola, and their immunity gave them an "enormous advantage against the vulnerable colonists," according to the library. By contrast, less than a quarter of the American colonial troops had ever had the virus.

Washington knew a mass inoculation campaign could backfire and might cause more disease than it prevented. He also feared the mandatory inoculations would harm recruitment.

Nevertheless, after weighing the odds, Washington informed Congress on Feb. 5, 1777, of his plans for a mass inoculation. The general's plans contraindicated a 1776 proclamation by the Continental Congress prohibiting inoculations.

A Feb. 6 letter to Dr. William Shippen from Washington states: "Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated. This expedient may be attended with some inconvenience and some disadvantages but yet I trust its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence, we have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy."

Throughout February, the inoculations across the entire force were carried out in the model of the initial efforts in Morristown and Philadelphia.

Washington's strategy was largely successful.

"The isolated infections that sprung up among Continental regulars during the southern campaign failed to incapacitate a single regiment," the Library reported.
....}

Gen. George Washington Ordered Smallpox Inoculations for All Troops

George Washington’s tactics included directing the first mass military inoculations

health.mil

There is a place for masks, but that is only if a pathogen is so lethal that one goes the full quarantine route.
But full quarantine ends any epidemic in less than a month.
And we decided early on not to do a full quarantine for covid.

 

[SweetSue92]

It figures. I had Covid last year, almost died. Now I wear a mask only to medical appointments. And I'm doing fine. I haven't gotten any of the vaccines, as well. And I probably won't.

Ugh, that's terrible! Glad you pulled through. You must have been hospitalized. Yikes.

 

[Weatherman2020]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

That why nobody ever wore masks in medical facilities filled with sick people?

As the CDC guidelines say - masks are worn by health workers in surgery to keep bodily fluids from entering the mouth.

 

[Rigby5]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

Wrong.
Reducing the rate of infection increases the death total because it keeps the epidemic from ending.
If that seems counter-intuitive to you, then just read history.
For example, how General Washington ended Smallpox by deliberately spreading it.
By the way, inoculation means deliberate infection, as vaccines were not invented until about 20 years later.

{...
According to the U.S. Library of Congress's Science, Technology, and Business Division, the smallpox inoculations began Jan. 6, 1777, for all of Washington's forces who came through the then-capital of Philadelphia, and through Morristown, New Jersey, following the Battle of Princeton.

Smallpox is a potentially fatal disease that starts with fever and vomiting and an outbreak of ulcers in the mouth and a skin rash. The skin rash turns into highly contagious fluid-filled blisters. The fatality rate was very high.

Inoculations were far more primitive - and dangerous - than today's vaccinations. The most common method was to cut a person's skin and rub the minor incision with a thread or cloth contaminated with a less-virulent version of smallpox, which in this case was a strain known as "variola."

At the time, most English troops were immune to variola, and their immunity gave them an "enormous advantage against the vulnerable colonists," according to the library. By contrast, less than a quarter of the American colonial troops had ever had the virus.

Washington knew a mass inoculation campaign could backfire and might cause more disease than it prevented. He also feared the mandatory inoculations would harm recruitment.

Nevertheless, after weighing the odds, Washington informed Congress on Feb. 5, 1777, of his plans for a mass inoculation. The general's plans contraindicated a 1776 proclamation by the Continental Congress prohibiting inoculations.

A Feb. 6 letter to Dr. William Shippen from Washington states: "Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated. This expedient may be attended with some inconvenience and some disadvantages but yet I trust its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence, we have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy."

Throughout February, the inoculations across the entire force were carried out in the model of the initial efforts in Morristown and Philadelphia.

Washington's strategy was largely successful.

"The isolated infections that sprung up among Continental regulars during the southern campaign failed to incapacitate a single regiment," the Library reported.
....}

Gen. George Washington Ordered Smallpox Inoculations for All Troops

George Washington’s tactics included directing the first mass military inoculations

health.mil

There is a place for masks, but that is only if a pathogen is so lethal that one goes the full quarantine route.
But full quarantine ends any epidemic in less than a month.
And we decided early on not to do a full quarantine for covid.

 

[initforme]

Mask wearers and non mask wearers are free to wear or not wear. Done.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Masks were never supposed to eliminate infection, any more than seat belts eliminate vehicle deaths.
Both HELP, that's it.

 

[rightwinger]

Wrong.
Reducing the rate of infection increases the death total because it keeps the epidemic from ending.
If that seems counter-intuitive to you, then just read history.
For example, how General Washington ended Smallpox by deliberately spreading it.
By the way, inoculation means deliberate infection, as vaccines were not invented until about 20 years later.

{...
According to the U.S. Library of Congress's Science, Technology, and Business Division, the smallpox inoculations began Jan. 6, 1777, for all of Washington's forces who came through the then-capital of Philadelphia, and through Morristown, New Jersey, following the Battle of Princeton.

Smallpox is a potentially fatal disease that starts with fever and vomiting and an outbreak of ulcers in the mouth and a skin rash. The skin rash turns into highly contagious fluid-filled blisters. The fatality rate was very high.

Inoculations were far more primitive - and dangerous - than today's vaccinations. The most common method was to cut a person's skin and rub the minor incision with a thread or cloth contaminated with a less-virulent version of smallpox, which in this case was a strain known as "variola."

At the time, most English troops were immune to variola, and their immunity gave them an "enormous advantage against the vulnerable colonists," according to the library. By contrast, less than a quarter of the American colonial troops had ever had the virus.

Washington knew a mass inoculation campaign could backfire and might cause more disease than it prevented. He also feared the mandatory inoculations would harm recruitment.

Nevertheless, after weighing the odds, Washington informed Congress on Feb. 5, 1777, of his plans for a mass inoculation. The general's plans contraindicated a 1776 proclamation by the Continental Congress prohibiting inoculations.

A Feb. 6 letter to Dr. William Shippen from Washington states: "Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated. This expedient may be attended with some inconvenience and some disadvantages but yet I trust its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence, we have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy."

Throughout February, the inoculations across the entire force were carried out in the model of the initial efforts in Morristown and Philadelphia.

Washington's strategy was largely successful.

"The isolated infections that sprung up among Continental regulars during the southern campaign failed to incapacitate a single regiment," the Library reported.
....}

Gen. George Washington Ordered Smallpox Inoculations for All Troops

George Washington’s tactics included directing the first mass military inoculations

health.mil

There is a place for masks, but that is only if a pathogen is so lethal that one goes the full quarantine route.
But full quarantine ends any epidemic in less than a month.
And we decided early on not to do a full quarantine for covid.

Dumbest post of the year

 

[Jaxson]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

More noob shit. "Medical masks have worked for a hundred years" on covid? Um... no.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Dumbest post of the year

I’m so old I remember when the bodies piled up in Florida and Texas because they stopped wearing masks while Leftard States continued to remain in lockdown home arrest.

 

[Redfish]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

the very best masks have a .3 micron filter, a covid virus cell is .0125 microns. so tell us how masks protect against covid.

 

[Oddball]

More lies and misinformation
Medical masks have worked for a hundred years

Yeah, in a medical theater....Not the fucking grocery store.

 

[Oddball]

the very best masks have a .3 micron filter, a covid virus cell is .0125 microns. so tell us how masks protect against covid.

but...but...but....but....but....REASONS AND SHIT!

 

[Redfish]

Masks were never supposed to eliminate infection, any more than seat belts eliminate vehicle deaths.
Both HELP, that's it.

correct, but that is not what we were told by the CDC, Fauci, etc. They said masks would protect us against catching covid. THAT was a lie and you know it.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Masks were never supposed to eliminate infection, any more than seat belts eliminate vehicle deaths.
Both HELP, that's it.

Zero difference in cases between states mandating masks and those that don’t.

 

[Smokin' OP]

correct, but that is not what we were told by the CDC, Fauci, etc. They said masks would protect us against catching covid. THAT was a lie and you know it.

NO, it wasn't.
Yes.....................protect.........................just like seatbelts in cars protect you, helmets protect football players and shoes protect feet from injury.

NOT, PREVENT.

People still get injured and die in vehicle accidents, football players still get head injuries and people still get nails that go through their shoes, into their feet.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Pure bloods rule