After imposing mask mandate for more than two years, now the successor of Dr Anthony Fauci has admitted that no studies exist which prove that masking is effective in stopping COVID-19.
“There is no study in the world that shows that masks work that well”, Dr. Ashish Jha said during a recent discussion with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The admission was quite the flip-flop for Jha, who only this past summer had insisted health officials were following the science in advocating for masking up.
“So, I think the science on masks is actually quite clear. And there is broad agreement among public health and science experts that masks work”, Jha said from the White House podium in July 2022.
Martin Kulldorff, a senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, recently wrote on Twitter that it is “astonishing that some public health officials still impose mask mandates”, when the only randomized, controlled trials on masks against the spread of COVID showed little to no benefit in wearing them.
With all the information on the lack of effectiveness of masks out there, Team Biden is still fighting to have mask mandates for airplanes and airports reinstated.
The CDC’s mask mandate was unpacked in research article entitled, “Revisiting Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements — United States, July 1 — October 20 2021”. The results were unfavorable for the CDC’s history of support for school mask mandates.
The researchers, Ambarish Chandra from the University of Toronto and Tracy Beth Høeg from the UC Cal-Davis, illuminated how the CDC studies supporting mask mandates were cases of “junk science”.
“Our study replicates a highly cited CDC study showing a negative association between school mask mandates and pediatric SARS-CoV-2 cases”, the authors state. “We then extend the study using a larger sample of districts and a longer time interval, employing almost six times as much data as the original study. We examine the relationship between mask mandates and per-capita pediatric cases, using multiple regression to control for differences across school districts”.
“We failed to establish a relationship between school masking and pediatric cases using the same methods but a larger, more nationally diverse population over a longer interval”, the authors concluded.
Making unsupported or outright false statements is nothing new for Jha, critics say.
One of his most egregious claims was that none of the COVID shots have serious side effects.
Medical professionals around the world, including US government officials, have said since 2021 that there are serious side effects from the jab, including heart inflammation.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have already given-up mask weeks ago, mask mandate is being still continuing in several third-world countries.
Adverse effect of mask
Until now those who have been thinking wearing mask as the best way of protecting from getting infected to COVID is proved totally wrong. A paper published by the journal Medicine said: “The Foegen Effect: A Mechanism by Which Facemasks Contribute to the COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate”, concluded that “contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case”.
The National Pulse in a report said: “Mask mandates caused higher COVID-19 death rates, according to the bombshell claims made in a new medical journal report analyzing fatality rates across the state of Kansas.
The paper analyzed “whether mandatory mask use influenced the case fatality rate in Kansas” during the time period of August 1, 2020 to October 15th. Kansas was used for comparison because the state allowed each of its 105 counties to decide whether or not to implement mask mandates, with 81 counties deciding against the measure.
“The most important finding from this study is that contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case”, summarized the paper.
“Results from this study strongly suggest that mask mandates actually caused about 1.5 times the number of deaths or ∼50% more deaths compared to no mask mandates”.
The study suggested a rationale for the increased risk ratio. Virions – the infective form of the virus outside the cell – “that enter or those coughed out in droplets are retained in the facemask tissue, and after quick evaporation of the droplets, hyper-condensed droplets or pure virions (virions not inside a droplet) are re-inhaled from a very short distance during inspiration”.
The author’s theory, dubbed the “Foegen effect”, is that the masks make the COVID-19 virions smaller, allowing them to spread deeper into the respiratory tract.
“They bypass the bronchi and are inhaled deep into the alveoli, where they can cause pneumonia instead of bronchitis, which would be typical of a virus infection”.
COVID-19 data collected by the New York Times showed that the mandates had no impact on case rates. The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal published a graph based on that data comparing the cases in the 11 states that never mandated masks with the 39 that did.
