Not remotely. If you have an aerosol-infectious disease like Kung Flu, masks reduce the release of aerosol particles. There's no need for a triple-blind study on whether masks work in particular for Wu Flu, since we've already got the studies that show it's airborne.
That said, wearing a mask when you're not sick actually makes you MORE likely to get the disease. It's bonkers.
The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.
Some of the more generous studies give surgical masks somewhere around a ~2% rate of filtration of infected aerosol particles but the results are at best inconclusive and bordering on the margin of error. It's a benefit so tiny it hardly exists if at all.
Furthermore this "benefit" quickly degrades as the moisture in your breath opens the pores of the paper filter, giving you at most 15 minutes before you need a fresh one.
That's what I meant, the findings have been inconclusive at best. There's no study that I've found that says, yes, if you're sick wearing a mask will meaningfully block the transmission of a viral infection.
Plus there's data now that casts serious doubt on whether asymptomatic spread is even occurring.
So there's just no reason to be wearing them which is why no health organization has ever recommended them for the general public in a health crisis. Up until, mysteriously, 2020 when nearly every nation in the world suddenly ditched their own guidelines and began following those of the Communist Chinese...
Don't forget about the study done by Fauci himself that said a very large percentage of people died during the 1918 pandemic BECAUSE OF THE MASKS not in spite of them. People would get bacterial pneumonia and die in a similar fashion as the cyanotic presentation from the actual flu. The supposed bigger second wave every reddit idiot throws out is likely due to masking and not the spanish flu.
Your point about the mask being made useless in less than an hour is also a great point that is just not being presented. The masks are only somewhat useful for a very short period of time. Then they become the reason you get sick.
Not remotely. If you have an aerosol-infectious disease like Kung Flu, masks reduce the release of aerosol particles. There's no need for a triple-blind study on whether masks work in particular for Wu Flu, since we've already got the studies that show it's airborne.
That said, wearing a mask when you're not sick actually makes you MORE likely to get the disease. It's bonkers.
I agree with your second point but I respectfully disagree with your first:
https://www.sott.net/article/434796-The-Science-is-Conclusive-Masks-and-Respirators-do-NOT-Prevent-Transmission-of-Viruses
Some of the more generous studies give surgical masks somewhere around a ~2% rate of filtration of infected aerosol particles but the results are at best inconclusive and bordering on the margin of error. It's a benefit so tiny it hardly exists if at all.
Furthermore this "benefit" quickly degrades as the moisture in your breath opens the pores of the paper filter, giving you at most 15 minutes before you need a fresh one.
That's what I meant, the findings have been inconclusive at best. There's no study that I've found that says, yes, if you're sick wearing a mask will meaningfully block the transmission of a viral infection.
Plus there's data now that casts serious doubt on whether asymptomatic spread is even occurring.
So there's just no reason to be wearing them which is why no health organization has ever recommended them for the general public in a health crisis. Up until, mysteriously, 2020 when nearly every nation in the world suddenly ditched their own guidelines and began following those of the Communist Chinese...
Great comment my fren!
Don't forget about the study done by Fauci himself that said a very large percentage of people died during the 1918 pandemic BECAUSE OF THE MASKS not in spite of them. People would get bacterial pneumonia and die in a similar fashion as the cyanotic presentation from the actual flu. The supposed bigger second wave every reddit idiot throws out is likely due to masking and not the spanish flu.
Your point about the mask being made useless in less than an hour is also a great point that is just not being presented. The masks are only somewhat useful for a very short period of time. Then they become the reason you get sick.