Advocates of mask mandates during the pandemic have suppressed the inconvenient truth about face masks: that they achieve no appreciable reduction in viral transmission, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
Some Covid restrictions were "idiocy" and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief Karl Lauterbach has admitted.
The evidence that masks do nothing to stop transmission of COVID-19 is now overwhelming. Why, then, is an NHS mental health trust reiterating its demands for patients to wear masks?
The fact-checker of a powerful press syndicate asked Dr. Tom Jefferson to assist it in "debunking misrepresentations" of his recent Cochrane review finding no clear evidence masks work. Take a hike, he said.
Masks make no clear difference against viral infections, according to the latest gold standard review of trial data from Cochrane that examines the results of 78 randomised controlled trials.
Pro-mask crusader Prof Trish Greenhalgh recently plumbed new depths of distortion and misinformation in her mission to force humankind to hide their faces behind strips of cloth or plastic, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
"By the latter half of 2022 it seemed we had turned a corner on masks," writes Jill Evans. "Only a deviant minority persisted with wearing them. But as we enter a new year, this return to sanity is under threat."
NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.
A couple in Plymouth lost their cafe and were fined £42,000 for refusing to comply with Covid restrictions in November 2020. The fine has been reduced to £14,000, but if they can’t pay they face jail. Can you help?
Clinical trials of masks in various settings have failed to show any effect. Which tallies with everyone’s personal experience of mask 'protection'. So, why the sudden reintroduction, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
