Last year, The New York Times noted something that we all thought was true, but still needed confirmation.
Mask mandates don’t really work.
The Times wrote, “The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous.
‘There is just no evidence that they” — masks — ‘make any difference,’ he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. ‘Full stop.’
But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?
‘Makes no difference — none of it,’ said Jefferson.”
KTVU in California reports that after four years, liberals still can’t give up mask mandates despite the science showing them to not be particularly effective.
Mask mandates are returning to health care settings in several Bay Area counties as an increase in COVID-19 cases overlaps with the cold and flu season.
The local health orders require masks to be worn in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare facilities. The story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Napa counties have reinstated the mask requirements.
The mandates become effective Nov. 1 and will continue through the end of March or April 2025.
One outlet explained that mask mandates don’t represent public health thinking but rather the way groupthink works in the American bureaucracy and the desire to use power has become unsatiable for many public health oficials.
“This once again demonstrates that the incompetence of public health officials is heavily influenced by groupthink. It’s no coincidence that these same counties all move in unison, with the same starting and end dates to their ineffective, disproven policy.
It’s also no coincidence that these counties all lean heavily to the far left of the political spectrum. Yes, these locals are getting what they voted for. But the idiocy inherent in the decision to bring masks back into 2025 is rampant everywhere. Even in places that are more politically balanced, pro-mask fanatics run companies, institutions, and local government. And this new shift shows that they will never give up on the feeling of superiority, power and control they got from years of mandates earlier on in the pandemic.
By now, most sane, informed people are aware that the overwhelming evidence shows that masks don’t work. High-quality masks don’t work. Masks don’t work when worn by healthcare providers, or doctors, or nurses, or the general public. There are no high-quality, randomized controlled trials that have shown masks to be effective at preventing the spread of infectious respiratory viruses. Not one.
So why are these counties doing what we know doesn’t work?
Because they can. Because they know no one will complain and everyone will comply, as they have for years. Those of us who criticized Fauci and his allies warned that this would happen. And sure enough, here we are. Just hope it doesn’t happen in your area.”
