Updated: December 2021
First published: July 2020
An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks.
Contents: A) Published studies ⇓ B) Real-world evidence ⇓ C) N95/FFP2 masks ⇓ D) Additional aspects ⇓ E) The aerosol issue ⇓ F) Contrary evidence ⇓ G) Mask-related risks ⇓ H) Conclusion ⇓
Denis G. Rancourt, PhD
Summary
The cluster-randomized trial study of Abaluck et al. (2021) is fatally flawed, and therefore of no value for informing public health policy, for two main reasons:
These disjunctive fatal flaws are explained below. Either one is sufficient to invalidate the results and conclusions of Abaluck et al.
Paul said “We’ve referred him to the Department of Justice, but then again, Merrick Garland is the one now going after parents that go to school board meetings, so I don’t have a lot of hope that Merrick Garland is objectively looking at Fauci’s lying. But Fauci should go to prison for five years for lying to Congress.”
“At the very least the taken out of position because I think he cost people lives through misinformation. Every time he tells people, ‘Oh, wear a cloth mask,’ he is actually endangering people. If you are around someone with COVID, you don’t want to wear a mask because they don’t work,” Paul added.
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Fiona LashellsThe School District of Palm Beach County has dropped its mask mandate. The district had previously suspended a second grader 38 times for violating the mandate. She may have to repeat the grade.
Fiona Lashells is a student in Palm Beach County who just turned 8 years old. She took a stand against a school board policy that she believed was wrong. For months she did not wear a mask to school, even though it had been mandated by her local school board. The litany of suspensions she has been handed is available at a website her mother created outlining the experience.
At a school board event on September 22, 2021, Fiona told the board members that being suspended is “not going to change” her mind, that she still has “the right not to wear a mask,” and that it is “not fair” that she is “getting punished because … the school board is not following the law.”
She also told the school board that she hoped “they all go to jail” for “doing this” to her.
Face-identification ability is specific.7,8,9,10 Humans have a specific face identification area of the brain, known in research as the FFA: the Fusiform Face Area.7,8,11 The FFA is in the right hemisphere of the brain. Prior to the age of two, the two hemispheres don’t communicate through the corpus callosum as completely as they will later.7 The left eye early on, then, provides the vast majority of the visual input to the right hemisphere. Later on communication between the hemispheres increases.
Visual neurology – all neurology – requires the correct or appropriate input to develop. Block the proper stimulus that would drive neural development of specific areas at a time of rapid neural growth, and development of the neural network involved is impaired.
Thanks to Shaking My Head Productions for the inspiration for this video. Billy Idol’s “Eyes without a face” providing the sound track for a scene from The Handmaid’s tale. The face masks that we are being forced to wear are truly dehumanizing and it’s all by design.
Jul 8, 2020
…this mask ordinance is mixing politics with medicine, setting a dangerous precedent for medical totalitarianism, robbing the people of bodily autonomy, and turning our constituents against each other.
Furthermore, it is not even based on sound science, but rather on a false sense of security that you are “doing something” about Covid. But what the Assembly is doing is ignoring the will of the people, their right to informed consent to wear a medical device on their face, parental rights to make medical decisions for their children, and ignoring science that shows mandates are ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, not only to Covid outcomes in a community, but to overall physical, mental, and emotional health.
From Must Read Alaska: Following the science: Last year, top doctors said mask-wearing was unhealthy
Dr. Anne Zink, the state’s Chief Health Officer, who told the Senate Health and Social Services Committee on Feb. 12, 2020 that a person wearing a mask is breathing in a wet, moist environment collecting viruses and bacteria, and it is in general not useful for protection from other persons’ germs.
Zink said that a mask was useful for someone walking into a clinic who was coughing or sneezing, but that the N95 mask — the one that is effective — has to be fitted and tested and that the recommendation was for average persons to not wear masks because they don’t know what they are doing with them.
Actual quote:
“The CDC is not recommending the average person to wear a mask. If you think about a mask, it’s a wet, moist environment that’s collecting viruses and bacteria, and in general, it’s not necessarily useful to protect you from other people. It can be useful if someone walks into a clinic, and they’re having symptoms. They’re coughing and sneezing — to keep you from coughing and sneezing on other surfaces and other people. So if you’re going into a healthcare setting, and you’re sick, putting a mask on and calling beforehand is recommended. In general day to day it’s not recommended.
The N95 that you mentioned is a tighter fitting mask that has to be tested and specifically fit. ….”
Jamie Allard on Facebook, 10/13/21
Fully executed EO 2021-3. Reminder: Alaska is not in an emergency and neither is the Muni. Masks still don’t work. Your Anchorage Assembly has made masking political, just ask Member Perez-Verdia and the majority of the assembly exempting certain members of the political arena.
The confident first lady reminds me of John Wayne: “Listen here, Cookie,” as she rebukes our *woke* Assembly (9 of the 11 so far). The husband of the second speaker ends by saying ~“This issue isn’t about the masks, but good and evil, between demonic and freedom and life….”
Dunbar, the assemblyman the first lady rebukes, ran for mayor against Dave Bronson and spends his whole time looking at and typing on his phone, ignoring the people testifying on this important mask ordinance.
Brandon Welsh:
“I already experienced my mother going blind; even though, a doctor told her she could not wear a mask — because your mandates forced her to comply at work.”
Answering a clarifying question by Jamie Allard:
“My mother was told by a doctor that she can’t wear a mask because she had an eye disease. She got a new job, and the mask requirement was there, and they said you can’t come in to work and work that way. And within weeks, her driver’s license was taken away, and she was declared ‘blind.'”
Starts at 1:08:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y94vBNKfYqk
“The variants are emerging from the vaccinated population.”
Dr. Kevin Stillwagon sets the record straight on the mindlessness of the mask and vaccine mandate narratives at his local Orange County, Florida Board of Commissioners Meeting held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Dr. Kevin Stillwagon Obliterates the Mindless Mask and Vaccine Mandate Narrative
“Believe in something even if it’s wrong and makes you look stupid. Just obey.”
OCTOBER 5, 2021 AUTHOR: SUZANNE DOWNING
Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair Chris Constant, when asked by Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance to lead the Pledge of Allegiance on Oct. 5 before the Assembly took public testimony, could be heard leaving out the phrase “under God” as he led the public in the recitation.
His voice, picked up by microphone and broadcast throughout the room, clearly dropped the phrase. When members of the public shouted out the end of the Pledge, “with liberty and justice for all,” Constant then pointed them out and warned them they would be removed.
Serious threats of violence against Mayor Bronson for not supporting the Assembly’s proposed mask mandate, because Big Pharma, Media and Government has falsely convinced them that everyone wearing masks protects them, when masks don’t work, and often cause harm.
who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters#exercising
People should NOT wear masks when exercising, as masks may reduce the ability to breathe comfortably.
Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly which makes it difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure during exercise is to maintain physical distance of at least one meter from others.
This study was cited by Anchorage’s chief medical officer Dr. Savitt in the Anchorage Assembly meeting on 9/13/21 at 3:21:45. It’s clear now that Dr. Savitt’s explanation of this study was misunderstood. In assemblyman John Weddleton’s 4-minute justification for voting for the mask mandate (while touching his mask 21 times in 4 minutes), he claimed this “10% effectiveness” of mask would be helpful. BUT THE STUDY DIDN’T SAY “10% EFFECTIVENESS.” They were measuring “EFFICIENCIES.” The 3-ply cloth masks stopped 10% of the viral particles, allowing 90% to go right through, of which many particles could be measured at 6.5 feet.
Dr. Savitt said the cloth mask is “about 11% effective.” The article stated that the cloth masks were 3-ply, and were 9.8% effective in stopping particles from releasing through the mask. That means 90.2% of the particles went right through, not that the masks were 9.8% effective in stopping people from getting Covid, which some misunderstood, because Dr. Savitt compared it to Assembly Person Crystal Kennedy’s Bangladesh study, which was trying to quantify overall effectiveness also using 3-ply masks. The Bangladesh study is not peer reviewed, and has many problems that they actually admit in the study. They were claiming about a 5% benefit from 3-ply cloth masks.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353484161
July 2021 The Physics of Fluids 33(7)
DOI:10.1063/5.0057100
IV. CONCLUSIONS The present study experimentally investigates the dispersion and accumulation of aerosol particles in indoor environments in the con- text of the guidelines proposed by national health agencies to control the transmission of COVID-19. Experiments were conducted in a controlled laboratory environment with a test manikin in a seated position mimicking relaxed exhalation through the nose, typical of an average adult. The manikin was equipped with five different commercially available masks that have seen widespread use throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both near-field flow visualizations and far-field particle concentration measurements allow for a holistic investigation of the effect of masks and ventilation in the test room, and provide a quantitative measure relative to aerosol concentrations and mask efficiencies of interest for transmission risk assessment, model development, and implementation of adaptive health and safety practices at workplace. The results highlight that (i) considerable rela- tive aerosol concentration levels can be reached at a 2 m distance from the subject in an unventilated space, and even when the subject is equipped with a mask, the relative concentrations are notably higher than those expected based on the ideal/rated efficiency of the masks; (ii) fit of the mask to the face, in terms of limiting leakage around the mask perimeter, is critical for limiting aerosol dispersion in an unven- tilated space, especially for high efficiency masks (e.g., N95/KN95); and (iii) increased ventilation/air-cleaning capacity significantly reduces the transmission risk in an indoor environment, surpassing the apparent mask filtration efficacy even at relatively low air-change rates (2 room volumes per hour).
Anchorage Assemblywoman Jamie Allard and Mayor Dave Bronson held this wonderful session, along with Amy Dembowsi and Nicky Tshibaka. Praise God!
42:20 Dr. Iona Farr’s testimony: over 600 Covid patients and zero deaths, using the Mercola, FLCCC and Fleming protocols! She mentions Covid vaccine side effects she’s seen in her patients. Miscarriage statistics. Novavax, a traditional style (not mRNA) vaccine will be coming out soon that will likely be much safer.
4:01:55 Providence nurse for 36 years, losing her job from the vaccine mandate: “It’s important for us to understand that all of the critical thinkers are losing their jobs. And so you people, when you go for medical care…, you’re going to be receiving care from a robot, because your critical thinkers are being fired. Think about that people. You’re not going to get the best medical care, because it’s being dictated by an insurance company, or a government agency, or some other entity.”
STORY from Suzanne Downing, Must Read Alaska
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
…What follows is a video from Dr. Anthony Fauci. He was interviewed [by Bloomberg] in 2019 and said things that contradict 2021’s Anthony Fauci. The video has also been removed from YouTube because it contradicts the approved narrative of the CDC. …
Fauci did this interview in 2019 less than a year before COVID. Most people have never seen it. Listen to him laugh off the idea of wearing a mask to stop yourself from getting infected. Why doesn’t he focus on healthy eating and other healthy behaviors more now? What changed? pic.twitter.com/M4xmejocCT
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 14, 2021
When asked if the best thing to do is to wear a mask, Fauci laughed and said, “No, no, no.”
The best way to prevent getting an infectious disease? At least, according to Anthony Fauci two years ago? “Avoid all the paranoid aspects and do something positive. A, good diet, B … get some exercise … get good sleep. I think that the normal, low-tech, healthy things are the best things that you can do.”
Emails released via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveal the Biden administration tightened its masking guidelines after a prominent teachers union threatened to release a statement harshly criticizing CDC masking policy, according to Fox News.
As suspected, the CDC's current school mask guidance came at the request/demand of the teachers unions, not based on any science.
Thanks @apublictrust for obtaining the emails.https://t.co/pKETNBVAKG pic.twitter.com/Wv09J2JK6t
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) September 8, 2021
09/02/21
The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) on Aug. 27 repealed an emergency mask mandate after a lawsuit was filed Aug. 5 in federal court challenging the regulation.
The lawsuit was brought by William Ouweleen, vintner for the oldest dedicated sacramental winery in America. Ouweleen challenged the constitutionality of the NYSDOH regulation 10 NYCRR 66-3, which required unvaccinated people to wear masks while vaccinated people could go mask-free.
Prior to filing the lawsuit, Ouweleen was twice cited by patrons of the winery for not wearing a mask, and was informed by the local health department he could be fined or closed down, or both, if additional complaints were received.
In the complaint, Ouweleen alleged the regulation violated his constitutional rights and was not justified by science, citing confirmation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that vaccination does not prevent transmission of SARS CoV-2.
Uncensored Storm Published August 9, 2021
The mom of two says Drew wanted to suck her thumb, which is the girl’s way of self-soothing.
Cleek claims the flight attendant gave the family two choices: cut a hole in the mask or glue it to Drew’s face.
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