Comment on Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID: study
aleph@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The metastudy that th is (old) article is based on drew widespread criticism from experts and researchers back when it was first published, and its conclusions were widely misinterpreted by antivaxxers and matimaskers, as you have also done.
If you’re interested in reading more about its flawed methodology and also some good evidence that masks do indeed help to reduce the spread of airborne pathogens, here’s some homework for you:
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Ok, consider a different line of thinking: Did you see that story where the CDC said to treat covid like the flu?
wsj.com/…/covid-guidelines-2024-cdc-symptoms-cont…
The simple logic goes: CDC says to treat covid like the flu, we didn’t mask for the flu previously, therefore we shouldn’t have to mask for covid…
(Someone mentioned though this suggests people should get “vaccinated” like for flu… although such “vaccines” are experimental and therefore present unknown danger so that wouldn’t seem like the best idea)
Hence assume that this was always true. Then, by not masking, people were following the CDC’s future guidelines correctly, it’s just the “experts” had the incorrect guidelines issued in the past. Many people were treating “covid” just like the flu since they observed that’s all about what it seemed to be like (majority of people recovered from it without problems, without “vaccines” or masking).
aleph@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So basically completely ignore the facts that
the form of coronavirus at the beginning of the pandemic was significantly more dangerous than it is now,
that the population back didn’t have the degree of immunity it does now thanks to widespread vaccination and previous infection
we know significantly more about the virus and the ways that it can be treated and prevented now than we did at the beginning of the pandemic
Congratulations, your genius plan would have overloaded the healthcare system even more than it did and millions more people would have died. Masterful gambit, sir.
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Those are mostly speculations, however I think it’s important to note that the healthcare system is overloaded due to over-regulation. Hence they want things like mask mandates to try to cope with healthcare mandates that already overloaded the system unnecessarily. The solution is to get rid of these mandates, not add more on to them, so that people can open more hospitals and create competitive healthcare offerings that increase the amount of hospitals and lower the amount of disease. So again, let’s assume masks do work: they could simply convince people to wear them, instead of mandating them. The lockdown mandates themselves impoverished the working classes and enriched the elites which would seem to lead to worse health outcomes for hard-working Americans: theguardian.com/…/world-10-richest-men-see-their-…
aleph@lemm.ee 7 months ago
These are hard facts, not speculation. If you had spent the countless hours following the pandemic over the past three years like I did, you would know this.
Also, trying to convince the American public to do anything even mildly inconvenient that goes beyond their immediate self-interest for the sake of the wider community is the most widely ineffective way of going about a public health crisis that you could possibly suggest.