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Landmark Danish study finds no significant effect for facemask wearers (19 November 2020)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-
Do face masks work? Earlier this year, the UK government decided that masks could play a significant role in stopping Covid-19 and made masks mandatory in a number of public places. But are these policies backed by the scientific evidence?
Yesterday marked the publication of a long-delayed trial in Denmark which hopes to answer that very question. The ‘Danmask-19 trial’ was conducted in the spring with over 6,000 participants, when the public were not being told to wear masks but other public health measures were in place. Unlike other studies looking at masks, the Danmask study was a randomised controlled trial – making it the highest quality scientific evidence.
Around half of those in the trial received 50 disposable surgical face masks, which they were told to change after eight hours of use. After one month, the trial participants were tested using both PCR, antibody and lateral flow tests and compared with the trial participants who did not wear a mask.
In the end, there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19. 1.8 per cent of those wearing masks caught Covid, compared to 2.1 per cent of the control group. As a result, it seems that any effect masks have on preventing the spread of the disease in the community is small.
Some people, of course, did not wear their masks properly. Only 46 per cent of those wearing masks in the trial said they had completely adhered to the rules. But even if you only look at people who wore masks ‘exactly as instructed’, this did not make any difference to the results: 2 per cent of this group were also infected.
When it comes to masks, it appears there is still little good evidence they prevent the spread of airborne diseases. The results of the Danmask-19 trial mirror other reviews into influenza-like illnesses. Nine other trials looking at the efficacy of masks (two looking at healthcare workers and seven at community transmission) have found that masks make little or no difference to whether you get influenza or not.
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As those of you who have been following my COVID-1984 series will be aware, the worldwide response to COVID is nothing but a wealth- and power-grab by the elites of this world. Given that the infection fatality rate is 0.23%, weighted across all ages (much lower when you exclude the over 70s, and many times lower still when you exclude those without underlying health conditions), and therefore well within the envelope for regular seasonal flu, the response to this virus has been about as warranted as the response to the death of George Floyd, a career criminal who was high on drugs and resisting police arrest at the time of his death. Then again, the elites never were the kind of people to let facts get in the way of a good narrative, particularly a narrative which helps them advance their globalist agenda of more wealth and power for themselves and less wealth and power for the great masses.
If there's any lesson to be taken from this year, I think it is this: When you can get people to believe that death is the worse fate that can befall them - that death is a thing to be feared above all else - there is no limit to the number of hoops you can get them to jump through in order to avoid that fate. It would be nigh on impossible to inflict such draconian restrictions and impositions on a population that feared dishonour and loss of self-respect more than it feared loss of life. A society that feared dishonour more than death would be impossible to tyrannise.
Lesson for 2021: When men's laws become unjust, rebellion and non-compliance become a duty.
For more content that counters the media's fallacious, one-sided, hysterical, sensationalist and fear-mongering propaganda, check out the must-see videos in my COVID-1984 series, which are listed on the 'About' page of my channel.
