Don’t agree with everything but “literally no one has ever been able to solve this problem,” is a pretty fair response.
I’m also curious to more of your thoughts on masks and how permanent of a fixture they’ll be. I’m thinking that at least socially, they’re here to stay, sort of like some Asian countries whose citizens seem to wear them as a somewhat common practice.
There's ample real-world and randomized controlled trial data to determine that masks have minimal, if any, protective effect on an influenza-like respiratory infection. This was known to the WHO and CDC, and is reflected in the literature produced up to 2020.
For what it's worth I was pro-Mask in early 2020 as well, but my opinion changed the more I began to research the topic. There are hundreds of doctors & scientists who will acknowledge that typical cloth & surgical masks are not effective.
In 2020 no new high-quality scientific evidence emerged to suggest that masks were protective against SARS-COV2. There were a few low-quality, uncontrolled studies such that the infamous hairdresser study, but a political decision was made to encourage masking as a way of making the virus visible & suggest that public health authorities had any power over transmissability.
The problem now exists entirely in the political realm, because political "leaders" cannot admit they made a mistake on masks even though the evidence continues to mount that masks aren't effective at reducing the spread.
One of the problems in the public health realm is that recommending ineffective treatments leads to reduced trust in public health authorities. Mask mandates were a huge mistake that ruined the credibility of the CDC, and have probably actually increased transmission by creating a false sense of safety.
Don’t agree with everything but “literally no one has ever been able to solve this problem,” is a pretty fair response.
I’m also curious to more of your thoughts on masks and how permanent of a fixture they’ll be. I’m thinking that at least socially, they’re here to stay, sort of like some Asian countries whose citizens seem to wear them as a somewhat common practice.
There's ample real-world and randomized controlled trial data to determine that masks have minimal, if any, protective effect on an influenza-like respiratory infection. This was known to the WHO and CDC, and is reflected in the literature produced up to 2020.
For what it's worth I was pro-Mask in early 2020 as well, but my opinion changed the more I began to research the topic. There are hundreds of doctors & scientists who will acknowledge that typical cloth & surgical masks are not effective.
In 2020 no new high-quality scientific evidence emerged to suggest that masks were protective against SARS-COV2. There were a few low-quality, uncontrolled studies such that the infamous hairdresser study, but a political decision was made to encourage masking as a way of making the virus visible & suggest that public health authorities had any power over transmissability.
The problem now exists entirely in the political realm, because political "leaders" cannot admit they made a mistake on masks even though the evidence continues to mount that masks aren't effective at reducing the spread.
One of the problems in the public health realm is that recommending ineffective treatments leads to reduced trust in public health authorities. Mask mandates were a huge mistake that ruined the credibility of the CDC, and have probably actually increased transmission by creating a false sense of safety.
I agree totally. We are a nation of spoiled children. A mask is such a burden. Get over it and wear it. You will save a life.