Mask compliance does not reduce covid-19 transmission. Did we know it from the start?

[Guy__]

Data from Europe:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9123350

Abstract: "... These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage."




And CDC study shows that mask usage doesn't help elementary schools:
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e1.htm

"... The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional."

Updates

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Masks are shown to increase Covid fatality rate. What does this mean? ↗

[Lliam]

Not one thing about so-called SARS-Covid2 from the very beginning as been honest. Not the original projections about fatalities, nor the manufactured terror, nor the masking, social distancing, closing of businesses, nor the number of deaths attributed to covid, nor the PCR tests or number of "cases", nor the deadly jabs.

It has had nothing to do with protecting human health.
It has all been a long planned, orchestrated psy-op designed to cause physical and psychological harm, and to gain total control over each individual human being.

[cth96190]

The masks were about teaching the sheeple to obey their globalist owners.

[BeJames]

Ehm, the summary of your second article says, and I quote:

"What is added by this report?

COVID-19 incidence was 37% lower in schools that required teachers and staff members to use masks and 39% lower in schools that improved ventilation. Ventilation strategies associated with lower school incidence included dilution methods alone (35% lower incidence) or in combination with filtration methods (48% lower incidence).

What are the implications for public health practice?

Mask requirements for teachers and staff members and improved ventilation are important strategies in addition to vaccination of teachers and staff members that elementary schools could implement as part of a multicomponent approach to provide safer, in-person learning environments."

[BeJames]

And the part that you cherry picked has also second part that you must have forgotten to include:
"The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional. This finding might be attributed to higher effectiveness of masks among adults, who are at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection but might also result from differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements."

[Guy__]

www.medrxiv.org/.../2021.05.18.21257385v1.full.pdf

Discussion:
Our main finding is that mask mandates and use are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states. 80% of US states mandated masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mandates induced greater mask compliance but did not predict lower growth rates when community spread was low (minima) or high (maxima). We infer that mandates likely did not affect COVID-19 case growth [15], as growth rates were similar on all days between actual or modeled issuance dates and 6 March 2021. Higher mask use (rather than mandates per se) has been argued to decrease COVID-19 growth rates [11]. While compliance varies by location and time, IHME estimates are robust (derived from multiple sources [17]) and densely sampled (day-level precision). Higher mask use did not predict lower maximum growth rates, smaller surges, or less Fall-Winter growth among continental states. Mask-growth rate correlation was only evident at minima. This may be an artifact of faster growth at fewer normalized cases, as well as regional differences in case prevalence early in the pandemic. States in the high mask quintile grew at similar rates as states in the low mask quintile after maxima (when interstate total case differences were smaller than before minima). In addition, mask use did not predict normalized cases at minima, and low mask growth curves trailed those of high mask (particularly Northeast) states before minima. Growth maxima and Fall-Winter surges did not differ between Northeast and other states. Northeast states exhibited the highest seroprevalence up to at least July 2020 [24] and constituted 80% of the top quintile of mask use, which may explain their comparatively lower Summer growth. Overall, mask use appears to be an intra-state lagging indicator of case growth.

[Guy__]

None of this show is about our health.
Who made the bat virus capable of infecting humans, by running it through humanized mice, to begin with?

[Bratsondanielle]

Well now that the sickness of 2020 has gone away we don't really need to worry

[Anonymous]

Oh it’s coming back trust me. It’s all part of a plan.