Mandatory masking has taken on a near religious level of ideology, but what does the science actually say? There are really only two questions that matter: 1) Do masks affect contagion at any meaningful level, and; 2) Does wearing masks cause any negative effects?
A study from April answers both these questions, and the results can only lead me to conclude that governments and health authorities around the world deliberately ignored all scientific understanding from pre-2020, and also methodically misled the public about the negative health consequences of mandatory masking.
A fair question would be, “why?”
To me it’s obvious that masking achieves several things, none of which are about public health. First, it anonymizes the masses, making it more likely that we fear one another as dangerous “others.” Second, it is an “obey or be crushed” mind control technique wherein a master orders its subjects to do X, regardless of merit, and they become conditioned to comply. Third, it enables lazy bureaucrats to pretend that they are doing something for the public good (like taking temps when over 50% of COVID patients don’t present with a significantly higher temperature). And fourth, and this is the seriously creepy one, the data is clear that masks can harm folks when worn for long periods of time, which is how they are used in employment settings and outside of one’s car or house.
So you have a practice that has minimal, if any, positive impact on health, and documented negative impact, as the preferred mechanism for dealing with the pandemic, aside from lockdowns, which all data now clearly establishes have no benefit.
If this seems like the #1 and #2 approaches favored by the WHO and CDC for a “pandemic” with a mortality rate of as high as .18% and as low as .001% actually do nothing positive and have major negative consequences (for employment, productivity, mental health, etc.), then you are reading my message clearly.
This seems increasingly to be largely a Psy-Op to convince the dim masses to sign up for a harmful experimental medical procedure with unknown long term and alarming short term health consequences, using classic conditioning and brainwashing techniques. That the only conclusion I can come to looking dispassionately at the numbers.
Here is the analysis on masks.
Personally, I don't see the mask-wearers as dim (even those with the big buy-in). I see them as victims of psychological warfare. I'm just putting those 2 cents in because whatever chance we have of reaching others (and it seems vital to get as many people as possible to see what's really happening and say NO) then we need to meet them with compassion.
This is an excellent mask meta-review that backs up the above, and irrefutably proves what a scam this deadly protocol that always was, and how governments and their scientists must have known given all of the pre-2020 mask research demonstrating dangers AND ineffectualness against viruses:
Masking: A Careful Review of the Evidence
https://www.aier.org/article/masking-a-careful-review-of-the-evidence/