Masking up - research

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NPR - pushing the result which the controllers desire - there's never any focus on studies which might "suggest" that masks were pointless
June 21 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sho ... -heres-why

Yes, Wearing Masks Helps. Here's Why

Featured articles include
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140 ... 9/fulltext
Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chu et al
pub online June 1 2020, in print only on June 27 2020
172 studies identified.
The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis support physical distancing of 1 m or more and provide quantitative estimates for models and contact tracing to inform policy. Optimum use of face masks, respirators, and eye protection in public and health-care settings should be informed by these findings and contextual factors. Robust randomised trials are needed to better inform the evidence for these interventions, but this systematic appraisal of currently best available evidence might inform interim guidance

distances of 2 m could be more effective.

These data also suggest that wearing face masks protects people (both health-care workers and the general public) against infection by these coronaviruses, and that eye protection could confer additional benefit
So, only SUGGESTING... and what happened to goggles for the eyes? Kicked into the long grass.

The word 'might' appears 24 times.

And of course we need a MODELLING study which appeared around the same time
Stutt et al June 21 2020 Proc Roy Soc A
A modelling framework to assess the likely effectiveness of facemasks in combination with ‘lock-down’ in managing the COVID-19 pandemic
Our intention here is to provide a simple modelling framework to examine the probable effectiveness of facemask wearing in combination with lock-down periods on the dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics. This involves scaling from individual behaviour to the level of populations to enable conclusions to be drawn about the effectiveness, or otherwise, of wearing facemasks to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.....
Potential extensions....include...the incorporation of human behavioural shifts dependent on an individual's perceived risk of disease, adoption fatigue or inconsistent adoption. ***

A key message from our analyses to aid the widespread adoption of facemasks would be: ‘my mask protects you, your mask protects me’.
job done. Everybody live forever and a day thereafter all masked up even in summer.

** or by increased level of threat - scaremongering stories in the MSM or levels of punitive fines threatened.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/ ... .2020.0376
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In the prestigious journal Nature, the editors have decided to promote a non-peer-reviewed "go" at pushing the benefits of mask wearing...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03030-3
Nov 4 2021
NEWS
04 November 2021
When are masks most useful? COVID cases offer hints
Masks offer the greatest protection indoors and during long exposures to people infected with the coronavirus — but other public-health measures matter, too.
The underlying "paper",
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 21265295v1
An analysis of hundreds of COVID-19 cases suggests that face masks are most protective in specific circumstances, such as exposure to a person with COVID-19 that lasts for more than three hours or that takes place indoors
There are a few comments appended below the news item, all of them giving the hint that such research might not get past peer review but were good stabs trying to prove the lie [my words] of viral transmission and its attenuation. "Roughly" [lol!] 1280 people who "tested positive" [symptoms not mentioned] over an eight month period ending September [!!!] in 2021 were asked about their lives
The study found that participants who were not fully vaccinated had the greatest risk of infection when they reported an exposure to someone with COVID-19 that occurred indoors or that lasted for more than three hours. Participants exposed to someone with COVID-19 had lower odds of infection if masks were worn at the encounter than if they weren’t. “This protection is especially important for people who were not yet vaccinated,
how on earth any psientist can say this was a well-designed "experiment" leaves me speechless. Were these "roughly 1280 matched pairs " really treted like lab rats in a laboratory? Or were they just carrying on with their lives in the real world, noting whenever anyone they spent 3 hours with was masked? It's mind boggling. It seems more like a sales pitch for getting jabbed [and boosted] "Put the stop-watch on, we're meeting indoors. Have you tested positive? Ooooh, I'm starting to come down with the dangerous, highly transmissible covid..." What scientific garbage!
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The psychological mind-benders who persuaded malleable governments to introduce the clown mask while medical professionals stood by and did nothing...

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/22/the ... o-the-u-k/
some good comments below it.
DELVE= Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics

[except there can be no epidemics, viral or otherwise, other than an epidemic of stupidity [key period 2020-2021]
The Royal Society has been staunchly pro-restriction throughout the Covid era, and its commitment to mask coercion is demonstrated by its hosting and promoting of DELVE’s policy-changing output on its own website on May 5th 2020. True to form, the Royal Society followed this up with its own strongly pro-mask paper on June 26th 2020, within which they lauded particularly the value of masks in conveying psychological messages that promote general compliance with restrictions, lending further weight to the premise that face coverings were imposed mainly as a method of people control rather than to limit viral spread. By July 10th 2020, Venki Ramakrishnan (the Royal Society president) was telling the Guardian that “refusing to wear a mask in public during the COVID-19 epidemic should become as socially unacceptable as drink driving or not wearing a seatbelt”.
Of course, if the writer realised that viruses and transmission of disease are merely postulates with no evidence to support them, the article might have been a bit shorter.
The article shows how in the UK the absurd masking ritual was introduced in Summer 2020 to create the impression of a "pandemic" and a climate of fear.
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And 'In March 2020, the UK Advertising Standards Authority ruled that ads claiming that masks prevent the spread of COVID-19 are "misleading, irresponsible and likely to cause fear without justifiable reason".'

Coronavirus: Face mask ads banned for 'misleading' claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51729647

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Adverts by two companies which made false claims about using face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus have been banned.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled the claims by Easy Shopping 4 Home Ltd and Novads OU were in breach of its code.
The adverts were "misleading, irresponsible and likely to cause fear without justifiable reason", it said.
Officials have urged more hand-washing to delay the spread of the virus.
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Interesting video on the psychological operation at work in English schools. This is all under King Charles, we know the CORONAVIRUS is him, his big entrance in 2020 as Boris Johnson cancelled all the Queen's engagements.

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