New systematic review claims masks work. No way.
This new pre-print study is garbage. But because it comes to the right conclusion, the “study” was hailed by the German Federal Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach as proof that masks work. Wow.
There is a new systematic review of 1732 mask studies to determine whether masks work. It is on a preprint server meaning it is not peer-reviewed.
Almost all of the 1732 potential studies were eliminated so they only looked at 13 studies with a total of 243 COVID infections between the two groups.
One of the 13 studies that was not eliminated was done in 2004 which is impressive since SARS-CoV-2 didn’t exist at the time.
From that, they conclude that masks provide nearly a 90% risk reduction of getting infected.
That is preposterous.
Masks have never had any measurable effect at all in any large well done study. I’m happy to bet anyone $1M who disagrees.
But the German Federal Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach had this to say about the study (translated from German):
For everyone who is still unsure whether masks protect against COVID: here is a new American mega study that evaluates over 1,700 studies. The benefit of the masks is very large, undisputed and applies to many areas.
Wow. He should resign. If he doesn’t, he should be fired for promoting such nonsense.
Want to see how well masks work in Germany?
Check out how much better N95’s are compared to surgical masks:
That’s right. Anyone with a working brain can see N95 masks are not effective at all. There is no measurable difference!
Ian Miller does a fantastic job of dismantling the deception. I highly recommend reading Ian’s article, “A New Low in Desperate Pro-Mask Studies Has Been Reached”
When I started thanking store employees for not having mask mandates they usually say "No, we still have them. We couldn't stand the complaints so we stopped enforcing it."
Sounds like we need to ramp up the complaints. Just keep after the employees/store manager/school board, etc until they give up.
Imagine, the Oregon Medical Board suspended my license for not masking—which truly is following the science. No harm, no contact tracing, none of my staff ever got sick. But I successfully treated hundreds of early COVID patients, and all recovered in about a week! We must answer the question why are they pushing the mask. The mask has become the new Swastika!