Stanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid

[GalileoSmith]

Lefties are going to have to attack the source on this one, since they won't be able to dispute the content.

Study Quietly Published at NIH.Gov Proves Face Masks Are Absolutely Worthless Against Covid [Updated]

Article originally published at American Conservative Movement and transferred here for posterity. Update: Stanford University has disavowed the study, saying

americanconservativemovement.com

I do NOT know whether masks help or not.

1. We have been told so often by the powers-that-be that masks do help protect the wearer and/or people near the wearer that probably most of us believe it. Quite possibly it is a placebo that works.

2. We wear them because it gives a sense (maybe a deluded sense) that we can do something to deal with this horrific virus.

3. We wear them to show other people that we are concerned about THEIR well being, so -- at the very least -- wearing masks is a way of saying "We are all in this together."

4. In a year or so, maybe a definitive answer will be known about their effectiveness or lack thereof. Then that knowledge will be used when the next pandemic hits the world.

There have been studies concerning masks and their effectiveness and reducing viral spread. Masks do not stop viral spread completely but they reduce it by a significant amount. It has to do with properties of physics almost as much as it has to do with virology. When an infected person exhales be it a cough, sneeze or even while speaking, the distance, and the amount of a viral load in that exhale is reduced.

 

[Markle]

It doesn't matter how it [COVID-19] got here or how mostly democrat administrations dismissed it at first. Covid seems to be a garden variety airborne disease and face masks are effective in all airborne diseases. Common sense will tell you that. The issue is political and centers about whether the government has the power to incarcerate people for the crime of congregating or socializing without a mask. For some reason the case has not reached the Supreme Court.

Your ignorance about COVID-19, sadly, is not surprising. Common sense will tell you that the difference between a virus and "GARDEN VARIETY AIRBORNE DISEASES" is vast.

If your thoughts have any validity, please show us where the public, wearing cloth masks has eliminated the spread of COVID-19. You cannot, but I can.

Difference between a virus and bacteria.


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Dr. Fauci Masks don’t work.


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Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19

The top medical experts in the world can’t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse.

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year.

Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them.

Europe's Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19 | Jon Miltimore

Public health officials in Denmark, Holland, and beyond say they have no intention of recommending face coverings, saying the science does not support it. “Face masks in public places are not necessary, based on all the current evidence,” said Coen Berends, spokesman for the National Institute...

fee.org

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CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks
OCTOBER 12, 2020 By Jordan Davidson

A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.

A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from health care facilities who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks

Over 70 percent of the case-patients who were contaminated with the virus fell ill despite "always" wearing a mask.

thefederalist.com

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1/25/2021 Masking the Science

[…]

In truth, we wish masks worked. If they did, it would be a cheap, and easy way to control the spread of Covid. The idea that they protect not only their wearer, but also those people around them seems noble. We wished masks worked because citizens are spending billions of dollars on them.

We wish masks worked because most Americans wear them now. Telling them it was unnecessary will not make them happy. We wish masks worked because they have become a symbol for virtue and social responsibility. Anyone who doubts their utility is personally attacked; as though they don’t believe the viral pandemic is real, or don’t care about those who die from it.

[…]

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Flip-flop Fauci reverses—again—on double-mask-wearing
Whatever Dr. Anthony Fauci says today may be different from what he says tomorrow, but he might come back to what he said yesterday in a day or two if he feels like it.
by Carl Durrek February 1, 2021 in Healthcare

If there’s one thing that’s certain about the coronavirus, it’s that Dr. Anthony Fauci reserves the right to change whatever he’s said in the past to fit whatever narrative he needs to push forward in the present. His reversals have become so common that it’s almost impossible to keep up with his current agenda at any given moment.

Flip-flop Fauci reverses—again—on double-mask-wearing

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Many Studies Find That Cloth Masks Do Not Stop Viruses Like COVID
By Lisa Mair
NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A thorough marketing campaign for the use of low-quality masks has convinced millions of people that masks will reduce COVID-19 spread, but do they really?

Much Recent Pro-Mask Research Is Deeply Flawed

The only statistically significant data on preventing viral spread is for N95 masks worn indoors when one can’t socially distance, which is not the type of mask required nor typically worn by the general public.

Many Studies Find That Cloth Masks Do Not Stop Viruses Like COVID

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Stanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid

The diapers most of us are wearing on our face most of the time apparently have no effect at stopping Covid-19. This explains a lot.
by JD Rucker
April 17, 2021

According to the current knowledge, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16], [17], while medical and non-medical facemasks’ thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440 µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger [25]. Due to the difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter (the virus is 1000 times smaller), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask.”

Stanford study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid

 

[Markle]

There have been studies concerning masks and their effectiveness and reducing viral spread. Masks do not stop viral spread completely but they reduce it by a significant amount. It has to do with properties of physics almost as much as it has to do with virology. When an infected person exhales be it a cough, sneeze or even while speaking, the distance, and the amount of a viral load in that exhale is reduced.

You must have forgotten to include the reliable source and working link showing a specific area where, due to the wearing of cloth masks, significantly reduced the number of infections and subsequently, deaths.

I proved my view, you did not.

 

[GalileoSmith]

There have been studies concerning masks and their effectiveness and reducing viral spread. Masks do not stop viral spread completely but they reduce it by a significant amount. It has to do with properties of physics almost as much as it has to do with virology. When an infected person exhales be it a cough, sneeze or even while speaking, the distance, and the amount of a viral load in that exhale is reduced.

You must have forgotten to include the reliable source and working link showing a specific area where, due to the wearing of cloth masks, significantly reduced the number of infections and subsequently, deaths.

I proved my view, you did not.

This entire thread is decorated with my reliable sources, the only reliable sources in the thread.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Lefties are going to have to attack the source on this one, since they won't be able to dispute the content.

Study Quietly Published at NIH.Gov Proves Face Masks Are Absolutely Worthless Against Covid [Updated]

Article originally published at American Conservative Movement and transferred here for posterity. Update: Stanford University has disavowed the study, saying

americanconservativemovement.com

Nice try but nope. There are countless medical... that is medical websites that confirm that masks worn in crowded public areas reduce the amount of viral particles released into the air by coughing, sneezing and simply exhaling by an infected person. Masks also reduce the distance any viral particles will travel. As for everyday masks causing hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, again, nope. But if you can provide three, no, we'll say two actual accredited medical websites that state otherwise, you're in business. The American Conservative Movement website won't do. Neither will anything from DC Comics or The Gateway Pundit.

Go look in a mirror...proof right there you have sucked in way too much of your own CO2.

 

[daveman]

If Covid is transmitted by mouth and nasal discharge why wouldn't masks be effective? Are they going to tell us that condoms aren't effective in the spread of V.D.?

What if there was a vaccination against pregnancy, but you still had to wear a condom?

What if there was a vaccine against pregnancy and not only had only 1/3 of the population had been vaccinated, but a significant portion of the population was reluctant to take it? Better wear a condom, right?

Best not to sleep around like a whore or man-whore.

Ever think of that?

 

[daveman]

There have been studies concerning masks and their effectiveness and reducing viral spread. Masks do not stop viral spread completely but they reduce it by a significant amount. It has to do with properties of physics almost as much as it has to do with virology. When an infected person exhales be it a cough, sneeze or even while speaking, the distance, and the amount of a viral load in that exhale is reduced.

You must have forgotten to include the reliable source and working link showing a specific area where, due to the wearing of cloth masks, significantly reduced the number of infections and subsequently, deaths.

I proved my view, you did not.

This entire thread is decorated with my reliable sources, the only reliable sources in the thread.

IF IT AGREES WITH MY PROGRAMMING ITS RELIABLE HA CHECKMAET SCIENCE HATERS

You really are a child.

 

[whitehall]

Covid seems to be a garden variety airborne disease and face masks are effective in all airborne diseases. Common sense will tell you that.

If you want to use common sense to make an assumption about the effectiveness of masks in regard to covid, you should at least have all the facts. There isn't anybody who believes masks are effective against covid who actually knows the size of the holes or pores in masks compared to the coronavirus or droplets that are 1000 times smaller. How could anybody use common sense to assume that something can be filtered out using holes that are 1000 times larger than what is being filtered? The only way to assume that masks work is if you buy the propaganda.

Hospital workers have assumed (correctly) for over 100 years that masks filter out harmful stuff . Would you have a doctor sneezing into your hernia without wearing a mask? The point is that you could pay a study group to come up with technical gibberish to support any theory you want to buy while the elephant in the room is the government's assumed authority to dictate wearing of masks and to arrest those who choose to congregate without wearing a mask.

 

[Markle]

Covid seems to be a garden variety airborne disease and face masks are effective in all airborne diseases. Common sense will tell you that.

If you want to use common sense to make an assumption about the effectiveness of masks in regard to covid, you should at least have all the facts. There isn't anybody who believes masks are effective against covid who actually knows the size of the holes or pores in masks compared to the coronavirus or droplets that are 1000 times smaller. How could anybody use common sense to assume that something can be filtered out using holes that are 1000 times larger than what is being filtered? The only way to assume that masks work is if you buy the propaganda.

Hospital workers have assumed (correctly) for over 100 years that masks filter out harmful stuff . Would you have a doctor sneezing into your hernia without wearing a mask? The point is that you could pay a study group to come up with technical gibberish to support any theory you want to buy while the elephant in the room is the government's assumed authority to dictate wearing of masks and to arrest those who choose to congregate without wearing a mask.

Why do you demand to remain ignorant about COVID-19?

Really, what is your payoff for pushing something that is not measurable in any way? Even you should know by now that Democrats are not interested in measurable results, only in what makes their voters FEEL GOOD.

 

[EvMetro]

Covid seems to be a garden variety airborne disease and face masks are effective in all airborne diseases. Common sense will tell you that.

If you want to use common sense to make an assumption about the effectiveness of masks in regard to covid, you should at least have all the facts. There isn't anybody who believes masks are effective against covid who actually knows the size of the holes or pores in masks compared to the coronavirus or droplets that are 1000 times smaller. How could anybody use common sense to assume that something can be filtered out using holes that are 1000 times larger than what is being filtered? The only way to assume that masks work is if you buy the propaganda.

Hospital workers have assumed (correctly) for over 100 years that masks filter out harmful stuff . Would you have a doctor sneezing into your hernia without wearing a mask? The point is that you could pay a study group to come up with technical gibberish to support any theory you want to buy while the elephant in the room is the government's assumed authority to dictate wearing of masks and to arrest those who choose to congregate without wearing a mask.

Your support of partisan mask culture is not based on common sense, it is based upon faith in mask propaganda. Common sense DEMANDS an explanation of how on earth the holes or pores in masks can filter out stuff that is 1000 time smaller, but you completely sidestepped this. Its fine if you have faith in CNN, but faith is not common sense.

 

[Toro]

Masks work.

From Stanford

The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19, which is caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the eight-week study period. The protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old. …​

“Our study is the first randomized controlled trial exploring whether facial masking prevents COVID-19 transmission at the community level,” Styczynski said. “It’s notable that even though fewer than 50% of the people in the intervention villages wore masks in public places, we still saw a significant risk reduction in symptomatic COVID-19 in these communities, particularly in elderly, more vulnerable people.”​

Cloth vs. surgical masks​

There were significantly fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with surgical masks compared with the control villages. (Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.) This aligns with lab tests showing that surgical masks have better filtration than cloth masks. However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.​

Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows

Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.

med.stanford.edu

 

[jbrownson0831]

Masks work.

From Stanford

The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19, which is caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the eight-week study period. The protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old. …​

“Our study is the first randomized controlled trial exploring whether facial masking prevents COVID-19 transmission at the community level,” Styczynski said. “It’s notable that even though fewer than 50% of the people in the intervention villages wore masks in public places, we still saw a significant risk reduction in symptomatic COVID-19 in these communities, particularly in elderly, more vulnerable people.”​

Cloth vs. surgical masks​

There were significantly fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with surgical masks compared with the control villages. (Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.) This aligns with lab tests showing that surgical masks have better filtration than cloth masks. However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.​

Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows

Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.

med.stanford.edu

Right, they cause you to breathe your own CO2 and throw your own bacteria right back into your lungs.

 

[EvMetro]

Masks work.

From Stanford

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The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19, which is caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the eight-week study period. The protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old. …​

“Our study is the first randomized controlled trial exploring whether facial masking prevents COVID-19 transmission at the community level,” Styczynski said. “It’s notable that even though fewer than 50% of the people in the intervention villages wore masks in public places, we still saw a significant risk reduction in symptomatic COVID-19 in these communities, particularly in elderly, more vulnerable people.”​

Cloth vs. surgical masks​

There were significantly fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with surgical masks compared with the control villages. (Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.) This aligns with lab tests showing that surgical masks have better filtration than cloth masks. However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.​

Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows

Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance.

med.stanford.edu

Masks do not work. No matter how much pro mask propaganda and fake news you post, breath will still flow easily around and through masks in real life.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Over and over those of us who do keep up with news have been shown to be correct in our analysis of this forced mask wearing. It is worthless. Our so called leaders are now letting the cat out of the bag regarding the real goal of the masks...it is not about your health. It was never about your health. It's about CONTROL. The 'authorities' tell you this but they say it in such a way that people don't hear it...because they don't want to hear it? they enjoy a good scare like they get when watching a scary movie? They NEED someone to run their lives because they've opted out of that responsibility?? I dont' know what your reason is, maybe all. maybe not mentioned. You have been lied to. They wanted to see who would comply and you did it. The mask has not protected your health, possibly even jeopardized it. They want to do this to your children. To harm your kids long term. To teach your kid Compliance. They are TELLING YOU these things. They MUST tell you. I can't explain it...but these people who have led you astray, they are compelled to tell you the truth about what they're doing, who they are. And they know that many of you will not see it, will not hear it, will not believe it. but you were warned. Maybe that is it. When you finally get it...they can say...'we told you what we were up to the entire time and you were fine with it.

Health 'Experts' Finally Admit Masks Control People, Not Viruses

These masks and the mandates that accompany them have never been about controlling a virus. They've always been about controlling people.

thefederalist.com

 

[Calypso Jones]

That reminds me of that Song The Snake. 'You knew darn well i was a snake before you let me in'.

 

[Toro]

Our grandfathers sacrificed by giving their lives on the beaches of Normandy.

The Trump snowflakes find wearing a mask too hard.

lol

 

[jbrownson0831]

Our grandfathers sacrificed by giving their lives on the beaches of Normandy.

The Trump snowflakes find wearing a mask too hard.

lol

You Dimmers find it too easy.
Sieg Heil!

 

[Shawnee_b]

Nice try but nope. There are countless medical... that is medical websites that confirm that masks worn in crowded public areas reduce the amount of viral particles released into the air by coughing, sneezing and simply exhaling by an infected person. Masks also reduce the distance any viral particles will travel. As for everyday masks causing hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, again, nope. But if you can provide three, no, we'll say two actual accredited medical websites that state otherwise, you're in business. The American Conservative Movement website won't do. Neither will anything from DC Comics or The Gateway Pundit.

Tater doesn't cover his nose and pulls his mask down to sneeze or cough.

 

[Markle]

Our grandfathers sacrificed by giving their lives on the beaches of Normandy.

The Trump snowflakes find wearing a mask too hard.

lol

Why don't you just follow the science?

Try it, you'll like it!

 

[Calypso Jones]

Nazi's said the ovens were merely de-lousing center.