I wrote a meta-analysis in April that showed masks are basically useless, with a negligible benefit at best (the right type of masks worn properly, etc.). Practically speaking, almost nobody is wearing them this way anyways, so they're basically useless. This has been known for a long time. Still people are so easy to manipulate. Nobody seems to be willing to do their own research anymore.
They outsourced their thinking to "the experts." There was an article in late 2020 that I got linked to often when I said masks only worked at best a couple of percent saying if there was a national mask mandate it would prevent 200,000 cases. I would then point out that number was calculated from the 2% reduction figure that they were arguing against and point to the link to the study in the article and where in the study the 2% was mentioned and they would immediately flip to "we have to do something." It was both funny and depressing because despite them getting okie dokied super hard it didn't change a single mind.
I wrote a meta-analysis in April that showed masks are basically useless, with a negligible benefit at best (the right type of masks worn properly, etc.). Practically speaking, almost nobody is wearing them this way anyways, so they're basically useless. This has been known for a long time. Still people are so easy to manipulate. Nobody seems to be willing to do their own research anymore.
They outsourced their thinking to "the experts." There was an article in late 2020 that I got linked to often when I said masks only worked at best a couple of percent saying if there was a national mask mandate it would prevent 200,000 cases. I would then point out that number was calculated from the 2% reduction figure that they were arguing against and point to the link to the study in the article and where in the study the 2% was mentioned and they would immediately flip to "we have to do something." It was both funny and depressing because despite them getting okie dokied super hard it didn't change a single mind.