Sometime in 2020 I sat down and did a google search for all studies related to masks and viral transmission. I deliberately excluded any study published in 2020 because like magic 'science' can appear to support policy. Well it was pretty clear even in medical staff that are trained in the proper fitment and timely disposal of masks, they basically did nothing. Worse than that cloth masks actually had negative efficacy because they get wet and contaminated so quickly. Mask policy wasn't based on science, it never was. It was pure politics. They wanted to drive fear into people and masking was a really effective way of doing it.
If I could figure this out, anyone could have. But people let the TV and politicians do the thinking for them.
Similarly I downloaded some college level medical textbooks on flu or coronavirus. Most of them from 2010-2018 didn't even have the word mask written in them one single time. Out of 20 I checked only one mentioned masks, pointing that some asian countries tried it. No data on whether it worked or not, just one sentence that some people tried it.
Sometime in 2020 I sat down and did a google search for all studies related to masks and viral transmission. I deliberately excluded any study published in 2020 because like magic 'science' can appear to support policy. Well it was pretty clear even in medical staff that are trained in the proper fitment and timely disposal of masks, they basically did nothing. Worse than that cloth masks actually had negative efficacy because they get wet and contaminated so quickly. Mask policy wasn't based on science, it never was. It was pure politics. They wanted to drive fear into people and masking was a really effective way of doing it.
If I could figure this out, anyone could have. But people let the TV and politicians do the thinking for them.
Similarly I downloaded some college level medical textbooks on flu or coronavirus. Most of them from 2010-2018 didn't even have the word mask written in them one single time. Out of 20 I checked only one mentioned masks, pointing that some asian countries tried it. No data on whether it worked or not, just one sentence that some people tried it.