Do the masks work? Current evidence implies that masks may actually be harmful. The body of evidence indicates that masks are largely ineffective.
It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they are currently used (without other forms of PPE protection), have no impact on controlling the transmission of the Covid-19 virus. Current evidence implies that masks may actually be harmful. The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely ineffective.
My focus is on the COVID face masks and the prevailing science we’ve had for nearly 20 months. However, I want to address this issue of masks at a 50,000-foot level about restrictive blocking policies in general. I build on the excellent work done by Gupta, Kulldorff and Bhattacharya on the Grand Barrington Declaration (GBD) and a similar push by Dr. Scott Atlas (advisor to POTUS Trump), who, like me, was a strong advocate of a focused type of protection based on an age-risk-stratified approach.
Because we saw very early on that the lockdowns were the biggest mistake in the history of public health. We knew the story and we knew they wouldn’t work. We also learned early on about the risk stratification of COVID. Unfortunately, our children will suffer the catastrophic and not just educational consequences of the deeply flawed school closing policy for decades to come (especially our minority children who could least afford it). Many are still pressured to wear masks and punished for not doing so.
I present the masked ‘body of evidence’ below (n=167 studies and evidence), which includes comparative effectiveness research as well as related trials and high-level reports. So far, the evidence has been steady and clear that masks do not work to control the virus and can be harmful, especially to children.
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