That’s a long winded way of saying “I’m completely incompetent,” Priscilla.

The article referenced clearly states “A few major news outlets covered its release by briefly reiterating the study’s summary: that masking then-unvaccinated teachers and improving ventilation with more fresh air were associated with a lower incidence of the virus in schools. Those are common-sense measures, and the fact that they seem to work is reassuring bit not surprising”

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

https://rationalground.com/post-thanksgiving-mask-charts-still-no-evidence-that-masks-work/

https://rationalground.com/category/masks/

I’m not seeing any consistent or significant drops in spread subsequent to mask ? dictates… and they didn’t work for influenza 1918-1922, either. (Jeremy Brown 2018 _Influenza_ pp61-62; John M. Barry 2004, 2014 _The Great Influenza_ pg226).

The trouble is that they do partially block air-flow, but these virus particles are very very small. With normal paper & cloth masks, the drops are blocked, but as we move around, the aerosols are suspended in the air all around where we were, and in-doors can cause infection hours after. Surgical masks are only slightly better, NP95s a little better yet…but not perfect. Infected individuals still leave clouds of virus behind. And, similarly, mask-wearers still breathe them in. (Recently, AAAS reported that research on prions had to be paused in France because several lab scientists were “infected”; prions are much smaller than Wuhan virus, couldn’t be filtered out using a ceramic filter, even.)

I haven’t seen any recent reports about the effectiveness of UVC (hard ultraviolet) in HVAC systems. Early on there were a few scientifical * articles saying they should be effective, but that presumes all of the aerosols are drawn through the system. (* These days, one cannot trust that an article in a so-called science journal is based on actual scientific testing.)

Kudos to PW. Political power-madness serving hysteria it is.

… on THIS… the Sciences is Settled

One, the mask that surgical staff use in an operating room are very different from the cloth or paper ones most people use as a COVID precaution. Two—and more importantly—the masks that surgical staff do not work against respiratory viruses; if the patient or any of the staff is ill with a cold or flu or something worse, they don’t operate.

Wear a face diaper and take 2-shots of sugar water and fertilizer runoff if you choose. But leave the rest of us the he// alone about it. And stop damaging our children with your insanity.

“My Body; My Choice”… it’s not just for killing innocent babies anymore

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2781283?resultClick=1

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm

Why is that when airlines started requiring masks for all passengers and crew, mass transmission events on flights stopped happening?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543400/

I’m starting to see a pattern.

Perhaps, and I’m just speculating here, that even if a cloth mask isn’t capable of blocking the transmission of every single droplet nuclei into the air, they might be blocking some of them?

Maybe when the person behind you at Walmart is coughing and sneezing into the air unmasked, there are more respiratory droplets being released into the air than if they had a mask on? Why do we teach kids to sneeze into their arm rather than project snot into the faces of everyone around them. What’s the difference?

Along comes the Kung Flu and all of a sudden, Chicom Face Diapers become the magical talisman of protection against the Kung Flu virus. Now, in the past year and a half, peer reviewed study after study, most notably the Danish study early on, show the same result. Chicom Face Diapers provide zero benefit and possibly a net negative benefit other than a possible placebo effect for a panic porn society which the enemedia continues to bleat out with zero context. This nonsense has been hyper politicized through and through and has nothing to do with real science.

Finally, we have this recent CDC study getting the same result which was conveniently memory holed. The fact that you Branch Covidian Cultists of Covidstan are so wedded to your Chicom Face Diapers in the absence of any real science supporting your position proves you are in a filthy despicable cult. You cultists prefer to worship your Pope Fauci and the baby murdering federal government. What’s more despicable is you evil cultists want to force children to wear them for 6 hours a day, five days a week at a government indoctrination center. I see you child abusing, filthy Branch Covidian Cultist parents forcing your little ones to wear them in the stores, at church and at restaurants.

You cultists are also the first ones rushing out to get your young ones the clot shots, completely ignoring the tsunami of catastrophic deaths and side-effects that have overwhelmed the CDC’s own Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Antibody Dependent Enhancement is occurring before our eyes with these clot shots driving all the breakthrough infections and viral mutations. In a sane civilization all this would be stopped immediately and criminal proceedings would start against the cultists who forced this on the nation. And yes, I include that despicable Trump, who allowed all this insanity to start, with his psychotic Operation Warp Speed and handing his presidency over to Big Pharma and these Branch Covidian Cultists. That lunatic still wants you to get the clot shot. The Left seized on this to implement their tyrannical Great Reset. Well done Trump, pedophile Joe and you filthy cultists. Congratulations on finally destroying a civilization.