COVID face masks do more harm than good?
COVID face masks do more harm than good?
One of the largest COVID-19 interventions, along with lockdowns and the jabs, has been face mask mandates. Face masks continue to be recommended by our leaders (source), the experts, and trusted media outlets (source).
In what won’t be a huge surprise to those who knew that virus particles are much smaller than the pores in the masks, a recent updated and large study published in the highly respected and influential Cochrane Library found: “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence).” Source.
Okay then.
With this being one of several studies over the years undermining the claims of effectiveness with regards to masking, you may also like to know if the masks are safe. We have known for some time, from the science, that masks can cause social harm, physical harm, and can negatively affect children’s brain development. Source. And all this despite it being widely accepted that “children have been spared by the virus — for the most part — and have not experienced anywhere near the severity of illness that adults have”. Source.
Okay then.
Extra: Is it starting to look like, the more science we bother to do, that all the major COVID-19 interventions (apart from that tried and true method of occasionally washing hands) were a) unnecessary, b) ineffective, and c) harmful?