A newly released study in the academic journal Annals of Internal Medicine casts more doubt on policies that force healthy individuals to wear face coverings. Few issues are more contentious in modern American life than mandatory mask orders. And the debate is about to get even more heated. A newly released study in the academic journal Annals of…
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Fort Fairfield Journal reports “Maine’s Rise in COVID-19 Cases Linked to Face Masks”
The Data Shows Prolonged Face Mask Use Increases Risk of Catching Respiratory Illness The recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Maine could be linked to the prolonged use of face masks by the general public. Scientific data collected in randomized controlled trials over the past sixty years has shown consistently that the use of face masks…
American Institute for Economic Research reports “The Year of Disguises”
2020 is a year of disguises. Some examples include computer models/modelers disguised as “science/scientists,” Tyrants/Dictators/Totalitarians disguised as “elected officials,” propaganda machines disguised as “news sources,” brainwashing disguised as “information,” censorship disguised as “public health safeguard,” panic and fear disguised as “social responsibility.” Even the virus itself has been disguised by humans as an “apocalypse.” But,…
Dr. Jim Meehan reports “An Evidence Based Scientific Analysis of Why Masks are Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful”
Jim Meehan, MD is an ophthalmologist and preventive medicine specialist with over 20 years of experience and advanced training in immunology, inflammation, and infectious disease. He has performed well over 10,000 surgical procedures. His research experience includes investigating associations between military vaccinations and Gulf War Syndrome. Dr. Meehan is also trained in internal medicine, addiction…
NBC reports “Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings Says She Didn’t Wear Mask to Store in ‘Exercise of Being Brave”
In a lengthy Instagram post Sunday night, three-time Olympic gold medalist volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings laid out her opposition to wearing face masks as it takes away individual rights and discussed her “little exercise in being brave” of going shopping without wearing one. Walsh Jennings, who is hoping to represent the U.S. again at…
CEMB reports “Masking lack of evidence with politics”
The increasing polarised and politicised views 1 on whether to wear masks in public during the current COVID-19 crisis hides a bitter truth on the state of contemporary research and the value we pose on clinical evidence to guide our decisions. What do scientists do in the face of uncertainty on the value of global interventions? Usually, they…
The Times reports “‘Dangerous’ to think masks will stop virus”
The epidemiologist in charge of Sweden’s coronavirus response has dismissed the scientific evidence for mask-wearing as “astonishingly weak” and suggested that making face coverings mandatory could backfire. Anders Tegnell, the face of his country’s distinctive light-touch approach to Covid-19, said it was “very dangerous” to believe that facemasks on their own could control the spread…
CBS reports “Biden and Harris call for three-month nationwide mask mandate”
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris are calling for a three-month nationwide mask mandate to limit the spread of coronavirus. “Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months, at a minimum. Every governor should mandate mandatory mask-wearing,” Biden said, suggesting that widespread mask use could save 40,000 lives over…
MSOM reports “Unmasking the Masks Agenda”
MSOM SPECIAL REPORT SR2: Unmasking the Masks Agenda
Fortune reports “Sweden’s top virologist has a message on how to defeat coronavirus: Open schools and no masks”
The coronavirus outbreak in Sweden has been one of the worlds deadliest. But in the past six weeks, Sweden has seen a remarkable turnaround, convincing health officials that its light-touch approach is working. By a per-capita basis, the coronavirus outbreak in Sweden has been one of the world’s deadliest—worse than the United States, France, or…