“Masks are, at best marginally useful indoors in crowded settings, OK? And the evidence that people have tried to drum up in the last six months to suggest otherwise is almost embarrassingly weak.”
“Recent global studies regarding the efficiency of masks have been inconsistent, and before the pandemic became politicized in the US, SCIENCE SUGGESTED THAT MASKS WERE “BROADLY USELESS” IN A PUBLIC SETTING”.
“To the extent that (masks) were useful, it would be for people who are actively infected and coughing. And to the extent that that made any difference, it was probably just as a signaling mechanism to show people, “Step away from me, I’m sick” “.
This is exactly what Fauci said on 60 minutes in early April 2020 before the masks became a political symbol. Both Fauci and US medicine has become highly political. We have many decades of studies on masks. We also have many decades of knowledge of the Coronavirus family. The size of the virus and it’s characteristics wrt how it would be blocked by a mask has not changed. We have NOT learned groundbreaking new info on viral spread that has changed this.
Instead, we have a selective goal for published stuies to achieve, and an ever weakening grasp of statistical significance and valid study design. They chose the crap to push in the media, and now everyone knows that it’s less harmful socially to just play along.
Link: https://www.foxnews.com/media/alex-berenson-wear-a-mask-social-pressure-has-real-consequences