Before ‘The Science’ flipped in the spring of 2020, the consensus among Western epidemiologists was that community masking doesn’t affect the spread of respiratory pathogens like influenza. As Jonathan Van Tam said on April 3rd 2020, “there is no evidence” to support the general wearing of face masks.
Although masks might block large droplets in close-contact settings like hospitals, and thereby slightly lower the risk of transmission, they can’t block airborne particles – which simply go through/around them, and then remain aloft for minutes or even hours.
As a result, large indoor setting like supermarkets, transit stations or classrooms soon fill up with airborne particles – even if everyone’s wearing a mask.
A new Spanish study strongly supports the pre-Covid conventional wisdom that masks don’t stop transmission of respiratory pathogens. The study uses quite a powerful design, which makes its results all the more convincing.
Ermengol Coma and colleagues analysed data on a large cohort of Spanish children aged three to eleven, whom they followed for the first term of the school year from September to December of 2021. During this period, there was a mask mandate in place for children in primary school (aged six and up) but not for those in pre-school (aged three to five).
Hence the researchers compared outcomes between children aged five (who were not subject to the mandate) and those aged six (who were subject to the mandate).
This constitutes a relatively well-controlled comparison, given that the two groups differ by only one year in age. In other words, since six-year olds are only one year older than five-year olds, you wouldn’t expect the rate of transmission to differ much between them for reasons other than the mask mandate.
The researchers estimated the incidence of Covid, the secondary attack rate and the R number separately for the two groups. If mask mandates work, you’d expect all these quantities to be higher among the five-year olds. However, the researchers found no statistically significant differences between the two groups.
What’s more, they found a strong positive association between measures of transmission and age across all the age-groups in their sample. In other words, transmission was higher among older age-groups, despite the fact that these groups were subject to the mask mandate, whereas the younger ones weren’t.
Ermengol Coma and colleagues’ findings suggest that mask mandates do essentially nothing to reduce the spread of Covid. And given that masks plausibly impede both learning and social interaction, on top of being uncomfortable, there’s no good reason for children to wear them. Indeed, the fact that they were ever made to is a scandal.
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I remember early on in the shitshow when I was still actively trying to persuade those among my friends and colleagues I mistakenly considered intelligent and politically aware of the evils of lockdowns, I quoted something from Sikora to a ex-friend. She’d clearly not heard of him (neither had I to be fair, before all this) and obviously then checked him out on Wikipedia. Her answer to my arguments (and his) was to send me this snippet from his Wikipedia enrty:
“In a 2017 Newsnight opinion piece, he described the NHS as “the last bastion of communism””
That was the extent of her counter arguments – Sikora has dared criticise the NHS, so he is Literally Hitler and all his opinions are immediately invalid without further discussion, as are mine by association. That more or less summed up for me the covidian cult mentality.
I think it was/is one of the many modern faiths that we simply couldn’t recognise as being a faith. People in modern society, through a lack of real human interaction, have become decoupled from reason and logic. Social media and online communication in general has driven this disconnect (yes, I see the irony in my own musings). We need meaning in life, and we seem to have replaced the meaning we get from direct human interaction with the meaning we get from faith – ‘vaccines’, climate, the NHS etc. Much of this faith is clearly a kind of self-flagellating pleasure. Also interesting is the idea of God as a higher power being replaced by the Gods of Big Tech, Big State & Big Pharma – these are now revered. In the biggest paradox in history, technology has driven us backwards into the dark ages.
Beautifully put.
Yes, I suspect I have a lot of ex-friends because I refused to accept the lockdowns. There are simply lots of people who I haven’t bothered to contact, because I know how they’ll think. People are hopelessly brainwashed. We’re living in the world of Atlas Shrugged right now.
She’s an ex friend now I assume?
Yes. We don’t mix much with non-sceptics now – at present it’s just too much of an effort.
It’s not the NHS’s fault.
It’s not their fault that it had grown into an unmanageable behemoth that couldn’t cope in the first place.
It’s not their fault that they overreacted to a pretty mild flu like virus and stopped treating those with other diseases.
It’s not their fault that they dedicated so many resources to rolling out a treatment most people didn’t need and actually has caused quite a lot of harm.
It’s not their fault that they don’t really want to meet patients any more
They’re the NHS, a national treasure, that needs to be loved and saved at all costs.
It’s our fault for not changing our lives enough to adjust to the needs of the NHS. And for doing annoying things like getting sick or developing illnesses.
What we need to do is to shut up, give them more money and do as they tell us. That’s how you build a world leading service.
A blisteringly accurate appraisal.
How many people do you think would be in their front gardens banging their pots and pans this year if it was made a ‘thing’? No need for a poll to get an idea of just what the public opinion is of “Saving the NHS” this time round is there? And don’t forget to keep a look out for all of those highly choreographed Tiktok dances…that were obviously cobbled together over their lunch break. Not!
The way to build a world-beating NHS is for everyone to die at home all at once, then there won’t be anymore waiting lists!
Nail. Head.
It’s the perfect cover. You can imagine the conversation – “but how do we hide all the deaths from this shot?”… “lockdown. What we do is we lock everyone in their homes for a couple of years, let a huge backlog of medical issues mount, further weaken the immune system and, hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
Pretty much. The first lockdown was designed to instill fear and get the population used to being controlled, then the propoganda campaign hit like a Blitzkrieg intended to ramp up the fear. Then, tantalisingly the talk of vaccines was introduced and only, if only, these could be produced quickly would millions be saved from certain gruesome death.
Those responsible for imposing lockdown, nominally Bozo and his band of Co genocidalists, would certainly have known that locking people up, denying social interaction, would undermine mental and physical health and dilute the population’s ability to fight infection and disease AND keep many away from rNHS. This of course would lead to:
“hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
And that’s because Bozo et al knew that mass sickness and death was inevitable following the ‘jab’ campaign.
As somebody rightly pointed out yesterday, why are no politicians and certainly no leading politicians falling to heart attacks or sudden aggressive cancers?
Simple – none of the buggers have been injected, more’s the pity.
The agenda is to maim and kill. Depopulation and enslavement for a few sickly survivors.
Before Bozo ultimately became a man without a country, he was already a man without a soul, having long since sold it to the highest bidder.
The elites all probably got the saline placebo jab instead.
Good interview with (once) eminent Dr Tess Laurie with John Oliver.
How she woke up
https://youtu.be/cgX7IY2rBug
Neil Oliver…
He’s well worth watching.
The sooner the state admits the NHS is dead and all that’s left is a corpse churning with maggots giving the impression of life, the sooner we can sort out a replacement. A couple of weeks ago, my Mum was told that there was a 50-week wait on the NHS to see the specialist who took a carcinoma off her leg, as the wound hasn’t healed properly. So she spent £140 to go and see him at his private clinic for ten minutes last week. Significantly, he told her what to do with the wound and it’s now healing well. The nurse practitioners at the GP surgery had told her completely the wrong thing to do with the wound and had dragged out the healing process by months.
In my home town, an equity firm is now running three of the NHS GP practices and more are likely to fall under its ownership soon. I pay monthly insurance to cut down the NHS fees at my optician’s and there are no NHS dentists available so I’m looking at £22 per month minimum rate to go to a private dental surgery
So we’ve already de facto privatisation, only with all the worst elements of the state gumming up the works. If I didn’t have to contribute thousands of pounds a year in National Insurance to help fund other people’s NHS treatment (and employees’ diversity courses), I could find a comprehensive private insurance package that would include GP care, opticians and dental plans, rather than scrabble around looking for someone who isn’t already oversubscribed…
The once-great NHS has apparently been moribund for a while now, from decades of mismanagement and death by a thousand austerity cuts. The latest machinations are simply finishing it off.
Privatization is basically a foregone conclusion at this point. Of note, of all of the rest of Europe, only Spain has a similar fully-socialized healthcare system. Switzerland, in contrast, is basically the polar opposite. And the rest are either some variant of either single-payer Medicare for all (i.e. public insurance but private healthcare system) or some sort of hybrid system.
What I will say, as an American, is whatever you do, DON’T be like us though with our for-profit sick care system and widespread medical bankruptcies that everyone ends up paying for either way. Frying pan, meet fire. As for our neighbor to the north, Canada, they WOULD have a good single-payer system if they didn’t subject it to their own death by a thousand austerity cuts for three decades straight.
The rot in the whole health sector is rife. The NHS is corrupt and broken, while the private sector is exploiting the shortfalls whilst not having any interest in doing something positive. Two grasping hands on one stinking amoral moneypit.
“We failed a generation of children – many of whom are now overweight, unable to talk…”
I have a sister and two neices who work in the education industry. The term used for children who cannot speak – literally – when they start school aged 4 / 5 is:
NVC – Non Verbal Communicators.
I kid you not, and there are lots of them.
Will that generation, and future generations, ever forgive us?
Then there is the increase in children starting school still in nappies. Children who have regressed in social skills of all kinds.
This may be of interest https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589884/full
Can I call people who imposed the lockdowns child killers as children were never at serious risk and children have died as a result of the various interventions?
Absolutely!
How many people that you know, who were in remission, have had their cancers come back as stage four and die? I know three people.