Mask-wearing had no discernible impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Europe during winter 2020-21 and may actually have increased mortality, a study has found.
The peer-reviewed study by Professor Beny Spira from the Department of Microbiology at the University of São Paulo, published in the journal Cureus, looked at the correlation between the rate of mask-wearing in the population and the number of reported infections and deaths from October 2020 to March 2021 in 35 European countries. All European countries, including Western and Eastern Europe, with more than one million inhabitants were included, encompassing a total of 602 million people. All the countries experienced a peak of COVID-19 infections during the six months – the winter 2020-21 wave.
The results are shown in the graphs above, where a positive correlation can be seen in the case of both infections and deaths, i.e., greater mask-wearing went hand-in-hand with more infections and deaths, the opposite of the intended effect of masks. In the case of reported infections the correlation was not statistically significant, so may have been by chance. In the case of deaths it was statistically significant, particularly in Western Europe, opening up the possibility that wearing masks actually made things worse.
Professor Spira addresses some possible limitations of the study.
It could be argued that some confounding factors could have influenced these results. One of these factors could have been different vaccination rates among the studied countries. However, this is unlikely given the fact that at the end of the period analysed in this study (March 31st 2021), vaccination rollout was still at its beginning, with only three countries displaying vaccination rates higher than 20%: the UK (48%), Serbia (35%), and Hungary (30%), with all doses counted individually. It could also be claimed that the rise in infection levels prompted mask usage resulting in higher levels of masking in countries with already higher transmission rates. While this assertion is certainly true for some countries, several others with high infection rates, such as France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain had strict mask mandates in place since the first semester of 2020. In addition, during the six-month period covered by this study, all countries underwent a peak in COVID-19 infections, thus all of them endured similar pressures that might have potentially influenced the level of mask usage.
Professor Spira notes the findings are in line with the results of most randomised controlled trials before and during the pandemic, which found the “role of masks in preventing respiratory viral transmission was small, null, or inconclusive”. Despite this lack of evidence, masks were widely mandated.
Mask mandates were implemented in almost all world countries and in most places where masks were not obligatory, their use in public spaces was recommended. Accordingly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) as well as other public institutions, such as the IHME, from which the data on mask compliance used in this study were obtained, strongly recommend the use of masks as a tool to curb COVID-19 transmission. These mandates and recommendations took place despite the fact that most randomised controlled trials carried out before and during the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that the role of masks in preventing respiratory viral transmission was small, null, or inconclusive.
Mask proponents appear to have been led astray by population-based studies from 2020, where, the study notes, ‘mask effectiveness’ was invariably measured against a background of falling infections.
Conversely, ecological studies, performed during the first months of the pandemic, comparing countries, states, and provinces before and after the implementation of mask mandates almost unanimously concluded that masks reduced COVID-19 propagation. However, mask mandates were normally implemented after the peak of COVID-19 cases in the first wave, which might have given the impression that the drop in the number of cases was caused by the increment in mask usage. For instance, the peak of cases in Germany’s first wave occurred in the first week of April 2020, while masks became mandatory in all of Germany’s federal states between the 20th and 29th of April, at a time when the propagation of COVID-19 was already declining. Furthermore, the mask mandate was still in place in the subsequent autumn-winter wave of 2020-2021, but it did not help preventing the outburst of cases and deaths in Germany that was several-fold more severe than in the first wave.
The study concludes that the lack of negative correlations between mask usage and COVID-19 reported infections and deaths suggest that “the widespread use of masks at a time when an effective intervention was most needed, i.e., during the strong 2020-2021 autumn-winter peak, was not able to reduce COVID-19 transmission”. It adds that the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe suggests the practice “may have had harmful unintended consequences” – though cautions that no cause-effect conclusions can be drawn from the observational analysis.
The study is worth reading in full.
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You wouldn’t expect masks to have any effect if viral particles do not exist as disease casuing agents. It would be like expecting mask to stop the spread of scurvy.
Incredibly when you start looking into how sars-cov-2 was identified as a new virus you realise that it simply wasn’t isolated and purified and then shown to cause disease, none of these things was actually done.
When you realise that none of these things was done so as to prove there was a new disease causing virus flying around you then realise if you dig a little deeper that this process has never been done for any claimed pathogenic virus be it measels, polio, HIV or flu.
The whole virology shebang is a fraud from start to finish.
The VIRAL DELUSION [EP: 02] ‘MONKEY BUSINESS’ POLIO, MEASLES & HOW IT ALL BEGAN.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jn9TEz3p5Mcf/
Enders received a Nobel prize for idetifying the measels virus, yet in the very scientific paper that his award was based on he admitted that the control experiments used produced results that could not be distingusihed from the results he claimed proved that virus existed – thus disproving his own claim of having proved the existence of a virus.
I agree completely – very well explained.
The documentary cited is a cracker, there are a series of them showing how the viral scam has been constructed.
Stefan Lanka is one of my favourites as he has now conduct control experiments that prove the cytopathic effects (cell death) in cell culture that are said to prove the existence of a virus occur when the same experiment is run without any innoculant from a person said to have a viral disease.
Thus proving that it is the experimentl procedure that produces the cytopathic effect and not any virus.
Simple equation: Viral Scam + Vaccine Scam = Stealth Population reduction and Digital Tyranny.
Discuss.
If Gates, Bezos, Musk and all the other billionaire WEF goons are killing people, who is going to buy their products?
More to the point who will look after them? Can you see Gates and Bezos toiling in the fields? Sure they can have their private army but when democracy is abandoned and the population is small what’s to stop the toughest taking over. That’s why old rulers were often warriors too.
What do you think the robots or trans-humans will be for?
Gates and Bezos don’t offer many actual products. But it’s a good question. The answer is that although there are elements within the ruling class that specialise in retail sales, the exploited are far too numerous from the point of view of the ruling elite as a whole within that class, in which the dominant faction is finance capital.
Gates and Bezos? What ever happened to Soros?
What agent caused smallpox, and how was it eradicated?
Ask Gates,he is now Global Supremo of all viruses and can choose at will!
What happens when Bill Gates dies? Who to blame then? His pet cat?
“different modern conspiracy theories often lies in the one-and-only Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and founder of Microsoft.
Why Bill Gates is the ‘perfect villain'”In a world in which nothing happens by chance, those with wealth are assumed to have the power to engage in and cover up malign activities. As a result, Bill Gates is an inevitable subject of conspiracy theories,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania”
“Like witches partnered with Satan, Gates has dark allies in the form of Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, and the Chinese government, according to conspiracy theorists…
…Another false theory around Gates is that the pandemic was his plan to depopulate the world and that vaccinations are a way to sterilize the population”
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/03/bill-gates-conspiracies-share-many-similarities-witch-hunts/8554819002/
Whilst it is possible Gates is not a super villain the circumstantial evidence doesn’t look great. Worthy of investigation. The way he squirms at difficult questions – why, he’s not running for office? His tentacles into Pharma. Media and WHO. Pharma is deeply corrupt and nothing is being done to clean it up.
Big Pharma is bigger than Bill Gates any day of the week.
Maybe ask people in India what they think of Gates.
It’s the ducking stool for you Foxy! How dare you question the narrative?
Oh… wait… that’s what sceptics do!
Smallpox wasa disease caused by malnutrition and terrible sanitation, like a great many diseases.
Smallpox was not erradicated by a vaccine, those areas that shunned the vaccine and promoted better health and sanitation outperformed the areas that did embrace vaccine.
Read Dissolving Illusions by Dr Susan Humphreys for a very indepth evidence based look into the issue.
Do you believe smallpox is infectious? If so, what is the actual agent that people can get infected with?
Just read it, it was very interesting and informative.
Magic?
Maybe a magic virus stopped by a magic mask…
I am sure a huge amount of virology is made up, many of the so called isolations are extremley suspect. However pathogens do exist and not understanding the mechanisms of “viruses” alone is not a proof they don’t exist.
Spread of the things we call viruses is something that most people have experienced and to try and explain this as just us all getting sick at the same time, by some unknown reaction to our enviroment, is really stretching it .
Terrain theory has it’s merits, a healthy terrain is far less susceptible to pathogens, but terrain theory alone cannot explain infection.
Parasites exist, malnutrition exist, toxins exist, there are plenty of things that can make us ill but the claims of tiny viral particles infecting one person then another are not backed by the scientific data.
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Covid-19-Fraud-and-War-on-Humanity-Part-2:7
I don’t think the hypothesis of virus particles not causing disease but being a symptom only is proven. But … even if they are disease agents the masks people have been wearing won’t do anything against an airborne particle that small.
Exactly!
So nice to see someone who knows “none” should be followed by a singular verb.
Great stuff….thinly veiled the Germ theory is complete bollocks!!!
Someone is attempting to sink society, so who is it, I’d like to know his name.
I thought it was The Government?
I want the name of the puppeteer
I don’t think so. I think they are being played.
whoever it is s/he is doing a cracking good job of it
Exactly!
So many of the actors stand to ultimately harm themselves it’s either a foreign power like China or insanity.
The big one is called George Soros. Unfortunately he has bread a couple of offspring.
What punishment should Whitty, Vallance, Hancock and Javid get for that futile waste of money, that antisocial edict?
We’ve got to stop this ludicrous situation of grossly overpaid incompetents not being punished for their corrupt grifting over two years.
To understate things – we are in a bit of a pickle.
We have a uniparty in control of the levers of power with most people seeming to think that the Tory/Labour paradigm offers actual meaningful choice.
Most people seem to believe the virus propaganda that the uniparty has used to smash up society and grab power.
The uniparty are pushing hard with their totalitarian power grab design to silence dissent and extinguish any possibility for change with their hate speech/disinformation laws.
We know that the uniparty welcomes protest from the likes of BLM and XR as these groups are essentially campaigners for uniparty aims, but that anyone protesting for things the uniparty does not care for will get a kicking from the police.
There is a saying regarding shit creek and a paddle but I can’t quite remember how it goes.
They could derail themselves by causing nuclear holocaust.
Assuming Putin is no longer following orders to create the Oceania-Eurasian war.
It could be that certain forces have been playing Putin like a violin.
They were just the mouthpieces… if I recall correctly, Whitty actually said masks were useless and then he changed his mind. As far as I’m aware he has never been asked why?
My own belief is that he was ‘got at’ by the BIT people who needed a metric to tell how many people were following the rules they had devised and, the more they could see compliance. the more onerous their demands became.
One of the odd features of the mask business was that it wasn’t part of the initial package in a good many western countries.
Either Whitty wasn’t properly briefed, or something happened – and we know it wasn’t a major and serious scientific study showing that the previous advice of the WHO on the subject needed to be altered.
I suspect that TPTB decided that they wanted a metric that could also serve as a disciplinary device. It’s been horribly effective.
I’d put them in isolation and have their daily updates , that they did during the pandemic, played to them on a continuous loop. They are allowed outside for one hour a day but are not allowed to interact with anyone and obviously not able to see their family or friends. For food they will be supplied with the same supplies that the clinically vulnerable were supplied with during the pandemic and of course they won’t receive any wages due to be being made redundant.
For life. No parole.
We shouldn’t pay for their incarceration, all their assets should be seized and used to pay for it for however long they choose to live like that, choosing not to live should always be an option. Any money remaining should be used to repair the damage they have caused.
You left something out.
They should be forced to wear a mask, indoors and outdoors, at all times. See how they like it.
They should be made to wear a mask when awake
That youth who filmed Witty calling him a lier, who was condemned by the Piers Morgan crowd was bang on the money.
Sew a square of damp cotton onto their faces and see how long it takes for the bacterial load to kill them.
In Minecraft, obviously.
We have some internment camps here in Lockdownunder. Originally intended I believe to add pressure to the vax-resistant. Considering the death numbers among the vaccinated, however, these locations might end up serving as hospices instead.
Another possible repurpose would be as a holding bay for your covid scumbags and ours. A place of residence where they line up every day for a shot until every last serve of the junk juice is pumped into a deserving jugular.
Good idea there is a tradition of shipping our criminals to your part of the world.
Some traditions deserve to be revived.
What about the ( ongoing) deaths then?
Definitely jail. If it can be shown they knew they were killing I’d suggest bringing back capital punishment for crimes of genocide.
The likes of Whitty, Valance and Ferguson are not incompetent. They are seriously stupid but are acting under orders.
These people are not thinking, they are simply told what to think and act accordingly.
Useful idiots sums them up best. Their lifespan depends solely on their deemed usefulness. Stupid because they cannot see this.
I’ve read elsewhere that masks increase the spread of rhinoviruses. As hand sanitisers don’t work for covid that effect shouldn’t be appropriate.
Always thought that persuading the public to wear low grade masks merely induced a false sense of safety
I think it was more a case of “something needs to be done, this is something, let’s do it”, combined with making mask wearing a test of compliance, and underlining that there was a “dangerous” bug about.
It certainly worked. I’ve encountered people – not many, but some- who say that in future anyone with a cold should wear a mask “to protect others”. Just like with covid!
I’m usually a big fan of ‘do something’. If you’re up the creek you may as well try paddling with your hands, start shouting, or even step out the boat to see how deep the creek is.
The key is though, if paddling isn’t working, the creek’s really deep, or the shouting attracts the lions, stop and think of something else.
“stop and think of something else.”
Nicola Sturgeon in lingerie….
Disturbing, especially given the Natzi penchant for inculcating children in a cult.
You’re a sick puppy!
How about saw the bottom off doors!
There wasn’t a problem. They weren’t trying to solve a problem. They weren’t up any creek. They were on the attack.
Still no vax for studidity – which now seems to be a far more dangerous “pandemic” than Covid!
Oh gosh yes…..I’ve come to the depressing conclusion that most people are stupid.
Age, education, whatever has no bearing on it. Most people don’t use common sense, reason or critical thinking. They believe what they are told, especially if it comes from a source which they accept as an authority.
Quite often I hear about something, and my instant response is “I don’t think that is true”. Could be anything, not just world events, but something about it seems “off” to me. My instinct says it is rubbish. But I now realise that I’m in a minority.
And to back this up, how many people do you know who share posts on Faceache, because they think if they “like and share”, they’ll win a Range Rover?
“especially if it comes from a source which they accept as an authority.”
Some consider ‘Maria Zeee’ as ‘an authority’.
https://zeeemedia.com/
“Use promotion code MARIAZEEE to receive 5% off your order of Dr Zelenko’s vitamins” – says it all, really. This is ‘quackery’.
I decided it’s not that I’m smarter than everyone else, I’m just more cynical and un-trusting.
Yes, I’m at the cynical old crone stage!
Not quite. I am more cynical, more untrusting and as a result a bloody site smarter.
“Age, education, whatever has no bearing on it. Most people don’t use common sense, reason or critical thinking. They believe what they are told, especially if it comes from a source which they accept as an authority.”
This is absolutely right. And especially if they are in a herd of some kind, e.g. “the scientific community”.
At this point I have to plug the 2012 film “Compliance”.
“I’ve come to the depressing conclusion that most people are stupid.”
Indeed.
Ninety percent of my contacts – friends and family – are degree plus educated from early 20’s to 90. Ninety percent of said contacts I would consider stupid. All injected to the max, all still believing this is / has been a medical emergency.
I firkin despair.
Please don’t despair.
Ignorance isn’t stupidity; and we all have areas of ignorance.
There’s a danger for those who decide that other people are stupid. They can become both complacent and arrogant.
I have no problem in thinking anybody is wrong about anything and that on the same subject, I am right! But it doesn’t make them stupid or me clever. I could be wrong today and wrong tomorrow. God knows, I have been in the past.
Same here. Got to stop saying that.
Well, you may, be right but, and this is purely anecdotal, I and many friends have got through the last couple of years without even a sniffle, so something is going on? Of course, we’re probably all now in a state of Immune Deficiency and will die of a runny nose when we finally succumb…
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Until Omicron, it was hard to find anyone who’d had clinical COVID, and even now it’s a minority in my mainly unmasked church community.
Well, indeed, but often things do happen because of the thing that preceded them… it’s a matter of speculation, of course, which of the myriad things we did might have lead to the phenomenon though?
That’s why we do clinical trials, to untangle the confounding factors – in this case, there are no good clinical trials supporting the value of masks.
I’ve had 3 colds over the last 2+ years. How did I avoid covid if it’s so infectious?
I’ve had the sum total of NOTHING over the last 2 years, not even so much as a cold, didn’t catch “Omicron” when it was virulent in December/January.
If anyone should have got something, it should have been me. I didn’t and it is a total mystery.
But I took VitD3 the whole way throughout and continue to do so (for other health reasons I should add). Meanwhile other family and friends jabbed to the eyeballs have had several quite bad doses of Covid(?)
I’m unvaxed, I took D caught Delta, added C, Zinc and IVM during. Was ill but O2 sat stayed high, 2 days of fever and 2 weeks to get energy back to normal. I’m not young.
You had prior corona viruses giving you some immunity perhaps?
A properly looked after body has lots of natural immunity that doesn’t come from prior infection.
That is true Star – good terrain will fight all kinds of stuff off.
Everyone I know has had covid, regardless of vaxed or not. All of them survived. But some vaxed have unexpected other problems suddenly. I am guessing the vax highlights any weaknesses.
No double pneumonia, no Covid.
As reported by Deborah Cohen, journalist, the WHO committee that did a u-turn and recommended them did so after political pressure, not because “the science” changed. I don’t think she ever named her source, understandably, but this seems entirely plausible and she’s pretty middle of the road as a journalist and working for the BBC at the time had every interest in keeping quiet so I think it’s credible. I doubt many politicians believed they worked, and fewer scientists. It was always only theatre.
The report is also credible beause no actual science was produced to prove the claim beyond some wanky laboratory work that was based on a mountain of assumptions.
I would imagine that what you report is likely correct – which just makes it totally ludicrous that we have a situation where the police have to visit the first minister of Scotland to have a stern talk with her over her breach of the mask mandate, put in place by a politician (her), for pure theatre – what an utter waste of valuable police time and public money.
We all know mass use of masks is worse than useless.
The big problem is what happens when people are forced to act in irrational ways for a prolonged period of time. The outcomes aren’t good. Either:
a. You abandon your own judgment and convince yourself they work as means of dealing with the cognitive dissonance. In short you go a bit mad because you suspend your ability to discern reality.
b. You don’t abandon your judgment, wear the mask out of fear of punishment and make yourself very angry.
c. You rebel and risk trouble.
Which ever way you go, the outcomes are just not good.
THAT to me is the real damage of masks.
The same goes for vaccines that clearly don’t work and are potentially very hazzardous.
Good points.
Masks served many purposes, one of which was to help identify the uncompliant.
The compliant being encouraged to denounce the uncompliant, to report them and verbally attack them, Mao used the same tactics in China.
(I wonder what sort of person masks identify in England at the present time…)
The number of mask-idiots around is still alarming, especially by the Waitrose types and other do-gooders. I just keep staring in disbelief at this morons as they ruin my day so much.
I agree. Some places seem more compliant than others. I was in the West Country last week, very little mask wearing, down to perhaps 2% in supermarkets. Then in Oxfordshire, much higher rate, still about 5 to 10% wearing them outside and in some shops maybe 20%. Even saw one old boy, on his own driving his car…..and wearing a mask!
I haven’t trawled through the West Country papers (not even the delightfully-named “Falmouth Packet) or those from Oxford, but, if the East Anglian papers are any yardstick, the amount of coverage or reporting of cases and “anything Covid”, including lots of “how I survived” and “who died”, would likely influence people. There are lots of photos of groups or street scenes with people fully, partially and not muzzled, with the middle lot predominating.
The broadcast media also varies in quantity and stridency of this coverage, and we all know what happens if you listen to, or watch the egregious BBC.
I pretend they dont exist, for example, if they’re waiting behind me in a queue where I’m likely to be a whike and I would normally let them go first I now only let the unmasked do so.
I did exactly that in M&S Food Hall the other day. There was a masked face behind me with a couple of things in a basket whilst I had a trolley load and was going to collect by car too. My normal, polite instinct would have been to let the mask go ahead of me, but as she was also trying to put her items on the belt before I’d finished unloading and getting closer and closer behind me, I thought, no way! I heard a definite sigh when I asked for collect by car, I hid a wry smile!
“Waitrose types”
I don’t mind the staff in Waitrose at all. The service is quite good. It’s the customers I can’t stand. So many of them walk around as if their entire personalities are made of snot.
All masked at the dentist yesterday. Got to be the madest place to wear.
At least adopting c. keeps integrity intact. FWIW.
I had to fish out an old surgical mast from the drawer yesterday to collect prescriptions from the surgery, which has atavistic signs everywhere requiring them in order “to protect our staff.”
Ironically there was another sign up apologising for delays because of staff shortages and illness.
Another anecdote: daughter’s family flew to Turkey last week, and assumed the pandemic was over like Fauci said, but were told children over seven had to wear masks. Theirs are five and seven, so they ignored it, until the older one was taken to the loo and the child-molesting cabin attendant said, “And how old are you, little girl?”
Her reply was, of course, open and truthful, and she was sent back to her seat masked and cowed, and no doubt also guilt-ridden at having been a health risk for the first half of the flight… unlike her slightly younger sister, of course.
“no doubt also guilt-ridden at having been a health risk for the first half of the flight…”
“so they ignored it”
If guilt-ridden and scarred for the rest of her life, she has her parents to blame ??!!
Which airline?
My GP had big notices up, stating that “Masks must be worn even if you are fully vaccinated”.
So they don’t think the vaccines, that they were pushing, do any good then?
Back in 2020, they moved all the chairs out of the waiting room so you couldn’t even sit down……not that you could go there much as the GPs all seemed to have run away, and it was telephone conversations only! Appointments were as rare as hen’s teeth.
The pharmacy next door was, until earlier this year, still making people queue up outside, allowing in only one person at a time, obligatory masks, staff in all that plastic ppe including masks and visors, stickers on the floor, and plastic screens round the counters. When I went in maskless, I was barked at and asked, rudely, if I was exempt. The fear was palpable.
If the staff were so scared, should they be working there?
If only they had known about all the parties going on all over Westminster at the time – they’d have known there was nothing to be terrified of.
And the politicos are still hoping that if they warmonger enough in Ukraine and ratchet up the cost of living then the partygate scandal will all be forgotten.
Re your second paragraph…..yep, that’s what it’s all about.
Thanks Hypatia, but I’d say that both paras are what it is all about.
Partygate being relatively local small beer, distraction from the worldwide COVID scam with an even bigger scare makes more sense.
The kerfuffle seems to be hiding their agenda from the public more this time, but there also seem to have been some serious miscalculations. Did they really want an alternative Eastern financial bloc?
Indeed. I agree with you.
How awful.
For future reference her parents should make a distinction between her ‘real age’ and her ‘pretend’ age for circumstances like that.
Where their 7 year old needs to be 5 her parents should tell her “if anyone asks, say you are 5, and if anyone questions it say you are big for your age”
Or if anyone questions it, tell ’em to “Do one!” ??
I thought of that (and so did they, probably) – but it’s a hard choice when you have to teach your kid either to be dishonest, or to live by lies… or to be a mug.
Virtue dies
When the world is lies.
In the main you want to teach your kids to be honest – but there are certain exceptions when you also need to teach them they need to be pragmatic too.
And one of those would be when some trolley dolly with no medical qualifications whatsoever (other than possibly basic airline first aid) is trying to force them to wear a mask and make them feel like they were risking passing on a deadly disease to other passengers for not wearing one. In that case the use of the pretend age is more than justified.
In the main you want to teach your kids to be honest – but there are certain exceptions when you also need to teach them they need to be pragmatic too.
I heard this sort of thing explained to a child once; and thought it was very well done – in a way that maintained the principle of honesty.
But that child was older. It would be more difficult with a child of seven. Poor little girl.
And what an appalling person the airline employee was. He or she was in the wrong; nobody else. The question should not have been asked.
Depends I think on the intelligence level of the kid involved.
When my nephew was 4 – smart as a whip – his mum wanted to get him into a soccer camp for the summer, but he had to be 5 to be eligible.
She explained that if asked, just this once, he had to have a “pretend” age and tell anyone who asked that he was 5. He was only 4 but had a maturity way beyond his years (he used to march about chastising his older brother for not doing his homework!) and was able to pull it off and understood why.
I’ve known children like that: the ones people explain by saying, “They’ve been here before!”
That is exactly my nephew!!!
He is a young man now with the kind of mental and emotional maturity that many people in their late thirties would envy!
Do those who wear a dress and mask of the same fabric think they are protecting their whole body, like a designer hazmat suit
The answer to that question could be worth a fat government grant to cover several years of online gambling and porn. I mean, research.
Masks where weaponised and used for control. The propoganda machine made people wear them to protect others allowing the self righteous types to snipe within society.
it was a very effective way of monitoring levels of compliance and ensuring fear was prolonged.
whilst it was a global problem, U.K. evidence was set and that was over turned with Whitty, Vallance and Hancock’s approval so nothing short of execution is suitable punishment for those three.
Add Jabbit and Bozo to that list.
As the critical and self thinkers said from the start.
Either they can’t trap or block virus particles and are as such medically useless, or they create the Foegen effect, where exhaled virus particles get trapped and reinhaled even deeper.
And noone wore and exchanged them correctly, exacerbating both problems and the many resulting illnesses from that.
Their sole real effects were that of Gessler hats: a display of and tool for creating obedience, submission and division.
And they were, are and will likely and sadly remain great for achieving those three.
“Their sole real effects were that of Gessler hats: a display of and tool for creating obedience, submission and division.
And they were, are and will likely and sadly remain great for achieving those three.“
Posters announcing this could have been printed and distributed, stuck up at bus stops and at railways stations, etc. … but that didn’t happen.
The Finnish Government announced 2 weeks ago that people didn’t have to wear face masks (I don’t think it was in law anyway!)… but that they are still ‘recommended’. I now notice fewer people wearing them here in Finland (I haven’t made a percentage guess yet).
There are still young men going round in black masks – what’s that all about? I bet it’s more about fashion and a sign of ‘being cool’ like wearing your baseball cap the wrong way round, or having your whole arm tattooed.
They will always come out with the mantra “It’s about protecting others” when the reality is they couldn’t give a toss about others.
Tile-tip for the Gessler hat reference.
In The Beginning, we were told, “It won’t affect the majority”, Gov UK Mar 20 said “Status of COVID-19 As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK”, then it changed and the experiment began to see how much control could be brought during Agenda 21/30
Masks were always about compliance and keeping the fear going – not about public safety.
Mask wearing was pure political theatre.
I’m baffled to see muzzles making a comeback in the Democratic People’s Republic of Caledonia.
Most prevalent in coffin dodgers, as you’d expect, but also a number of younger women seem to have put their purity-veils back on again – as you’d expect, they were the ones out banging pots and pans in worship of the Holy Church of Our NHS.
I’m still trying to figure out why this is. Normally it’s rote obedience to Kween Krankie, but I’d have thought that her repeated “Ah briefly forgot mah ain law, but Ah’ve drawn a line under it noo” incidents would have disabused them of that grovelling subjugation.
I wonder if this is like the Millerite movement, the apocalypse cult whose truest believers actually became more zealous when Armageddon failure to turn up on time. I guess it is actually true that every day you don’t die makes it more likely that you’ll die tomorrow.
My view on masks is that some vulnerable people continue wearing them outside in winter, thus blocking the sunlight from one of the few parts of their body normally exposed to the (weak) sun. This depresses Vitamin D levels and thus leads to increased chances of death.
Vit D. Hmmmmm………..
Just had a humdinger of a cold despite knocking back 4,000IU of Vit. D daily for the last 2+ years.
Maybe I should consider that my cold wasn’t as bad as it could have been…………….
Vitamin D tablets are no replacement for sun exposure and the whole pill popping thing can be a bit scammy. The labels of these vit pills and other supplements state their contents but not how absorbable they are in the body. Different forms of these supplements are more readily taken up by the body and most of the time all those lovely vitamins are going in one end and out the other.
‘Dr’ Zelenko sells ‘vitamins’…. I wonder where he buys them from, and where they are manufactured.
They nearly all have something to sell.
I am no expert on supplements but it is my understanding that not all are equal. Naturally obtained vitamins and minerals are mostly superior.
Ah… but ‘Dr’ Zelenko’s vitamins are especially good. And, who would hesitate at 5% off the cost?! Bargain!
Hope you are taking it alongside Vit K2 which helps with its absorption and makes sure it doesn’t send calcium into the wrong areas of the body!
What about all the other vitamins? A, B2, B6, B12, C, E…. ?? And all the ‘minerals’…. funny how these rarely get a mention.
An odd response – Vit D is only really a vitamin because the usual synthesis path through UV is compromised in our latitudes (and or by clothing). Research on its specific role in immunity has been around for some years.
Vit C, in high dosage, is also frequently mentioned in the COVID protocols, based ultimately on the work of Linus Pauling, whose debunking may have been premature.
There’s little reason for most people to be deficient in the other vitamins and minerals (barring zinc), and that’s why they’re not frequently discussed in this context.
Next question.
Vits D3 and K2 are synergistic and work with each other. Hence the mention – it would be neglectful to talk about D3 and not then talk bout K2 in the same conversation.
Read more about it and educate yourself on the issue. I did.
Still a great way of quickly identifying the truly stupid in society (the ones who have come out from behind their sofa’s).
It’s funny how the woke/progressive/democrat crowd have embraced masks as a political stance. And at the same time how masks have become the signifier of the stupid.
I have just ventured into Ilkley where I found mask wearing restricted to the elderly – all of which were wearing them loose, over their mouths only etc, and the idiotic young who were wearing them to prove how virtuous they are. Yes, they have become an outward emblem of stupidity.
And I bet they were masked, baht’at an bahn’ to catch their deeath o’ covid.
Duh………
When I was young I never understood so much of what made dystopian societies ‘work’ — how do they get people to rat on their neighbours; why support rates are so high; why do people put so much effort into obeying rules that clearly only make life worse.
I thought that people in these countries ‘obeyed’ mainly as a result of fear — I now realise that this is incorrect.
People seem to accept these dystopian conditions just so long as they think everyone else is accepting them — at which point they become very content to ‘rat out’ anyone that isn’t accepting them.
Of course, there are always a few dissenters — but the masses will happily ignore them and if they cause too much trouble will be happy enough if they’re silenced by the state (whether it be by execution, gulag or having their social media accounts frozen).
Yes, this is the real manifesto and agenda of the,Globalist, Anti-Conservative, Great Reset/ Green Fascist, Johnson Government we so stupidly put in power!
In the last few weeks we have seen studies and articles that demolish virtually every detail of the Covid Narrative shoved down our throats
by the Johnson Government, its agents, its fake experts and the controlled censored Media for the last two years..
As even the most gullible and naive can surely now smell a cellar full of rats , is it time to ask why we have been lied to and what the real purpose of the lies the massive self-harm damage to our general health, the Health Service itself and our economy and the subsequent hysterical max experimental and ineffective “vaccination” campaign has been?
Even the darkest of “Conspiracy Theories” now needs to be considered seriously.
There’s always been a question about whether covid naturally spreads as a respiratory disease in the first place. I’d say that it probably does, but the evidence isn’t conclusive.
Eg, it could be spread via an faecal-oral route — I note that the household infection rate (how likely it is that one person in a household will spread it to others in a household — this is about 15%) is rather close to the ‘not washing hands after having a poo’ rate (10-20%, depending on age, gender and cultural background).
The other complication is the role of superspreaders. This was all over the media in spring 2020, but was overtaken with the theory that all infected are spreaders. Yet there’s lots of evidence that it can’t simply be that all infected are spreaders
Eg, back to that household infection rate — covid apparently now has a R0 of >12, yet an R0 this high would mean that nearly everyone in the same household as an infected individual would become infected, and this isn’t the case.
Recent studies have picked up on the superspreader theory (eg, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01105-z), but the people directing this pandemic would prefer us to keeping thinking that everyone spreads, everyone is at risk.
Fæcal-oral route. It is a virus of the respiratory tract, not the gut. Therefore it is adapted by evolution to be aerosol spread.
When swallowed it will be destroyed by hydrochloride acid in the stomach so it cannot reproduce in the gut, and any viral fragments in fæces would be inactive.
Respiratory viruses spread in enclosed spaces with plenty of circulating air and where there is a high level of circulating viruses, and particularly in domestic settings – which is why lockdown was so counterproductive.
In order to be infected, and individual needs around 5 000 viruses settled on the nasal mucosa.
What matters is how long you are in a space with circulating virus and how many virus. It us why masks won’t work, because they are not airtight, virus will pass round sides and straight through the material. Even if some virus are stopped, if you are in the space long enough, there will be an accumulative effect.
Why then was it found in waste water treatment samples going back as far as the summer of 2019 in Spain and Italy – faecal route? no?
And it is well known that if you flush a toilet without the lid being down, an invisible plume of bacteria and other nasty particles is forced up to 7 feet in the air which can then be inhaled or fall onto other surfaces.
That being the case I can never understand why there are public toilets in hospitals where there are no lids. Were they trying to economise? reduce cleaning time?
I know there are a lot of anecdotal stories, but I really have to wonder at how damaged (or how totally compliant) people have to be to wear a mask on a near empty English beach with a stiff onshore wind, as I have seen this week, and people still wearing masks to walk around hotel dining rooms but taking them off to sit down. It’s a shame that the above report will never be read by these sorts of people.
I saw one lady carrying a tissue in her hand so she did not have to touch door handles with her bare hand.
A good start point would be to ask whether these people were like this before, not as a consequence of, the last two years.
I think we finally have an intelligence/mental state indicator for those ‘care in the community’ cases who used to walk among us unbeknown.
Those results fly in the face of the widely held belief that because a mask limits airflow it necessarily limits viral spread. This is a widespread fallacy of intuition; because things look a certain way to me, this must be how they are. Another such fallacy would be believing the earth is flat because that’s the way it seems to be when I look out the window.
Since the study is already peer-reviewed it will be considerably harder for the masking crowd to discredit it, and most possible flaws will already have been fixed. The inclusion criteria is very simple and the period selected mostly prevents differences in vaccine rollout from complicating the issue.
Is the mask question settled then? To most reasonable people it already was long ago, and this study is important because it confirms what was already known. As for the masking crowd I guess no amount of research will ever convince them, not any more than flat-earthers can ever be convinced of the error of their ways.
People believe that the masks must be doing something a bit helpful to them, rather than understanding that they are obeying an order from their government which has no good purpose whatsoever.
Are you trying to tell us the earth isn’t flat? I’m sure if the Guardian and the BBC told us it’s flat then round earth conspiracy theorists would be banned from Twitter.
Seriously, though, it is so patently obvious that the masking nonsense is entirely political with no credible science to justify it you have to marvel at the temerity of people who profess it and the gullibility of those that go along with it.
“The round-earth conspiracy theory”, this is a good one, won’t be surprised to see it popping up somewhere soon.
Child hepatitis cases falsely linked to Covid vaccine – BBC News
Another 36 cases in the past week
The Health Authorities and the BBC have ruled out any link to the vaccines
In reality they have conflated the fact that none of the children were jabbed to stating there is no link between vaccines and this outbreak of hepatitis in children
Simply not true
The only thing that they know at the moment is that they don’t know
Interestingly, they still try to keep alive the possibility covid is to blame, despite the specialist they quote says it is not a possibility as only 16% of the patients tested positive and because it is a different virus.
Perhaps isolating a child for two thirds of it’s life may have something to do with it?
I guess the allowed answer would be that out of two bad outcomes it is worse for the child to go outside, meaning it would immediately drop dead from covid, than to get hepatitis.
What do you mean a different virus. Heretic!
There is only one virus and his name is CoV 2. All others are false gods.
The BBC really are very naughty in this regard — there is no ‘knowledge’ that the vaccines aren’t to blame — there are several mechanisms that could have led from vaccination (using weird vaccines) to increased pathogenicity of an adenovirus strain.
But the BBC probably knows what it is doing — they’ve got both an authoritative voice and primacy bias on their side — most people will just believe that it isn’t due to the vaccines no matter what evidence comes along (as anything ‘not official’ is misinformation and they simply turn off their brains whenever they think that misinformation is incoming).
when in a actual fact anything anything “not official” is more likely to be accurate information and the “official” version is likely to be mis-information (vaxx is safe and effective, wear a mask to stop the spread) and they should switch on their brains when information which is “not official” is incoming
No report I have read mentions vaccines, the suspected culprit is adenovirus, known to cause hepatitis, as result of untrained immune systems thanks to lockdown and other measures which stopped kids mixing and sharing bugs.
But when it comes to BBC et al, if their is no ‘fake news’ to denounce they’ll invent some.
We live in a very strange and broken world where a peer reviewed paper is required to determine something so obvious. We really are in trouble.
Peer review is worth about as much as the toss of a coin.
Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, condemned medical peer review as up to 50% junk so it’s worse than you thought.
I’ve just received a letter from my gp informing me that I can now get a health check. The only positive is that I can use the back of the letter for a shopping list.
I completely understand now why people move off-grid. ‘Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated’.
In other news: research shows that the number of budgies kept as pets is not correlated to covid either.
However there is a correlation between pirates and global warming
Maybe parrots are involved somehow?
I’m willing to accept millions in government funding to prove/disprove this theory (depending on what they tell me the outcome should be)
“the science”
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
If only they had a vaccine or three to stop this terrible killer disease!
Remember the very well planned 2011 Pandemic Preparedness Strategy? The one that Hancock and the rest of the lying, deceitful charlatans ripped up, when Black Death 2 first arrived?
Here’s what it says about masks, Page 37, and it’s still online:
“4.15 Although there is a perception that the wearing of facemasks by the public in the community and household setting may be beneficial, there is in fact very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use in this setting. Facemasks must be worn correctly, changed frequently, removed properly, disposed of safely and used in combination with good respiratory, hand, and home hygiene behaviour in order for them to achieve the intended benefit. Research also shows that compliance with these recommended behaviours when wearing facemasks for prolonged periods reduces over time.”
Notice the word “perception” in the first line.
I’m glad you had that information to hand, I was thinking about it when I first read the headline.
The part which stuck with me was –
“there is in fact very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use”
It was a fact then and still is now, no matter how hard they try to convince us otherwise.
There was a meme floating about around the time which sums it up….
Very good!!!!!
That’s two of the four cornerstones of “the science” debunked, lockdowns & face masks were more detrimental than the virus they were supposed to curtail, who would have guessed?
We already know the “gold standard PCR” that was widely used to drive up figures and fear from the outset, was quietly swept under the carpet last year, and replaced with lateral flow testing, which in and of itself is known to be not exactly accurate at the best of times, so that’s three.
Number four, jabs, promised to deliver salvation, the more data being released is showing it is a placebo at best and lethal at worst.
Hold on to your tinfoil hats, the ride isn’t over yet.
It was known long before 2020, not least from studies during influenza outbreaks in mask-obsessed Oriental Countries, that masks made no difference. We have observed from the data in mask verses no mask USA States and of course Sweden versus the rest, plus umpteen reports – they don’t work!
The faux-vaccins don’t work, masks don’t work, lockdowns don’t work, antisocial distancing doesn’t work. How much longer will the deadbeats go on insisting they do?
About 80% of us have strep and staph colonies in our nasopharynx. These are kept under control at low levels by our immune system. Bacteria, unlike respiratory virus, can propagate out side the Human body in various media and on surfaces. Masks provide a nice warm, moist breeding medium for disease causing bacteria which can then be inhaled providing a bigger load for the immune system to deal with. Plus masks being constantly touched are an excellent method of cross-infection.
So how many of those extra deaths were from bacterial infections? I suppose since nobody was counting, we shall never know.
Off topic but…
Truth is treason.
These articles keep saying things like; “the opposite of the intended effect”. A more accurate phrase would be; “the opposite of the publicised & claimed effect”.
“Mask proponents appear to have been led astray …”
Does one ‘lead astray’ a crook, a fool, or a liar?
Like I said, masking is a filthy habit…
no suprise as this was obvious from the start
Anyone with the slightest bit of common sense knew from day one that all measures introduced were harmful to health and ineffective. Why bother to spend energy and time analysing data? Experienced and honest Scientists told you right at the beginning and it has all gone the way they predicted. That’s why some of us ignored the whole damn lot and have remained perfectly healthy other than normal seasonal illness (if at all) for the last 2 years. At the end of the day it’s clear that the global plan is partly to depopulate and they have approached this from so many angles- eg. denying essential healthcare for months, harmful drugs (Remdesivir, Midazolam etc), isolation, masks (micro plastics now found in lungs in the UK from using these) , harmful tests, highly dangerous vaccines etc. It very much looks like over the next few years the goal depopulation quota will be reached.
this study on europe confirms the findings of my own study.
https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000028924
Just read quickly through your paper. Very interesting findings.
Took my dog to yet another vet (I’ve been chucked out of two for my views regarding their stupid “covid” rules) it’s like going back in time to March/April 2020. Notices on seats saying “DON’T SIT HERE” plus others dotted around saying “DON’T FORGET SOCIAL DISTANCING” and most important of all “PLEASE WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES”. You can only go in to say you’ve arrived. You then walk out and the vet phones when they are ready. Only allowed one person to see the vet and on it goes! Looks like I’m going to have to find a 4th veterinary practice. When is this madness going to stop?
As surgeons, we all knew masks as worn by the general public don’t work, any more than do pieces of plastic apron. The PPE nonsense as with most of the uncritical pro vaccination nonsense has persuaded society and politicians and sandfly many medics that they understand SARS-Cov-2. You will note this is not a mainstream publication and this paper would never get great traction because too many, including our knighted pair can’t be proved to be buffoons.
And yet I am still being forced to wear one for 12.5 hours a day at work in the NHS. Being told off for taking breaks from my mask or it slipping down my face because they’re enormous and I have a small face (so I have to constantly touch and adjust it).
You have my sympathy – must be awful.
Of course, masks do make a difference and the positive correlation between deaths and mask usage bears this out. Although masks as worn by the general public don’t reduce viral infection, they do reduce oxygen levels in the blood, most obviously if worn for long periods – this is well-known and proven, I’m sure that someone with more time can find a link or several if they want to. Reduced oxygen leads to worse health outcomes e.g. when the body is trying to fight Covid – again, correlation between low oxygen levels and increased Covid severity is well-known and proven.