Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles. https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy
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Vaxxter reports “Bill Gates Endgame: Contact Tracing”
Were [Covid-19 lockdown] measures rolled out to ensure the health of people around the world? Or were they imposed with its real agenda hidden? Did the changes have long phases of development? Or were they contrived and implemented on the fly?
The Atlantic reports “How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?”
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/
PJ Media reports “What If I Trust Science and Don’t Trust Dr. Fauci?”
Medicine is the art of applying science to a set of symptoms and complaints. As it turns out, doctors treating patients did a much better job figuring out the science that our Health Experts™ did. So, quite frankly, Dr. Fauci and his peers should never wield the amount of authority over all aspects of citizens’…
NY Times reports “The CDC Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What went wrong?”
The technology was old, the data poor, the bureaucracy slow, the guidance confusing, the administration not in agreement. The coronavirus shook the world’s premier health agency, creating a loss of confidence and hampering the US response to the crisis.
Children’s Health Defense reports “The Risks vs. Benefits of Face Masks- Is There an Agenda?”
There has been a shifting of positions on the use of face masks with the COVID-19 outbreak. Initially it was not recommended, then we had different signals from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and representatives of the CDC, the NIH and other agencies. There are many important considerations including the risk versus the…
Business Insider reports “WHO says there is no need for healthy people to wear face masks, days after the CDC told all Americans to cover their faces”
There’s some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks, the WHO guidance said, but “there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.” https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-people-to-wear-face-masks-2020-4
CDC states “masks for ages 2 and up” in school reopening guidelines
CDC releases its school reopen guidelines. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools.html
CNN reports “Contamination at CDC lab was likely cause of critical early delays in rolling out coronavirus testing”
Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials have told CNN, a problem that stemmed in part from the CDC not adhering to its own protocols, according to a US Food and Drug Administration…
CDC releases “guidance on classifying Covid-19 deaths”
It is important to emphasize that Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-1-Guidance-for-Certifying-COVID-19-Deaths.pdf