Roughly half of the 6,024 participants, were randomly assigned to wear surgical masks “outside the home among other persons together” while the other half continued to operate in public without a mask.
After a month, 42 of the mask-wearers in the study (1.8 percent) were infected with the virus while 53 of the non-mask-wearers (2.1. percent) were infected with the virus. Statistically, this is not a significant difference between the two groups.
... masks are asked to be worn to reduce transmission rate from the sick person to others. Similar how in surgery, masks are worn to prevent transmission to the vulnerable patient being operated on, not to protect the staff from the patient.
Doctors always said that they offer negligible protection to the wearer... which this study confirms.
In no way however does it dismantle the pro-mask narrative.
In unrealistically ideal circumstances that may be true. Unrealistically ideal means surgical grade masks that are worn once then disposed of, and not contaminated by touching your mask.
Do you know anyone who only uses surgical grade masks, once per outing, and never touches their face? No, you don’t.
So instead, masks are acting as disease incubators people wear in the most vulnerable possible place, that they’re constantly loading up handfuls of contamination and spreading it to every.single.thing. they touch.
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Roughly half of the 6,024 participants, were randomly assigned to wear surgical masks “outside the home among other persons together” while the other half continued to operate in public without a mask.
After a month, 42 of the mask-wearers in the study (1.8 percent) were infected with the virus while 53 of the non-mask-wearers (2.1. percent) were infected with the virus. Statistically, this is not a significant difference between the two groups.
... masks are asked to be worn to reduce transmission rate from the sick person to others. Similar how in surgery, masks are worn to prevent transmission to the vulnerable patient being operated on, not to protect the staff from the patient.
Doctors always said that they offer negligible protection to the wearer... which this study confirms.
In no way however does it dismantle the pro-mask narrative.
In unrealistically ideal circumstances that may be true. Unrealistically ideal means surgical grade masks that are worn once then disposed of, and not contaminated by touching your mask.
Do you know anyone who only uses surgical grade masks, once per outing, and never touches their face? No, you don’t.
So instead, masks are acting as disease incubators people wear in the most vulnerable possible place, that they’re constantly loading up handfuls of contamination and spreading it to every.single.thing. they touch.