It doesn’t seem like it, according to the Cochrane review: “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory-confirmed influenza/SARS-CoV-2 compared to not wearing masks.”
Some observers have taken this as a final, authoritative conclusion on the matter, an opinion shared by the man behind the review. “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author, said in an interview. Even fitted N95 masks in health care settings, the interviewer asked? “It makes no difference — none of it.”
The author basically blows off the meta analysis because it mostly reviews flu and then reiterates that bangladesh study that was so shitty it found that red masks were effective while blue masks weren't (or contrariwise, I don't remember).
This is exactly the response I was hoping the scum of the media would have. Many scientists will be watching this and will have to choose between seeing science as discredited or seeing the media as discredited. No matter what they choose, the Rainbow-Marxist cult is severely weakened.
What a difference a year makes. From "You must do this: THE SCIENCE says so" to "Finding answers in science isn't that easy."
The author basically blows off the meta analysis because it mostly reviews flu and then reiterates that bangladesh study that was so shitty it found that red masks were effective while blue masks weren't (or contrariwise, I don't remember).
IIRC, surgical masks scored in between those two color masks.
"The important thing is that we asked absolutely no questions before letting them mass mandate it but you can trust us totally 100% no problem"
This is exactly the response I was hoping the scum of the media would have. Many scientists will be watching this and will have to choose between seeing science as discredited or seeing the media as discredited. No matter what they choose, the Rainbow-Marxist cult is severely weakened.
no, it's exactly what we think.