![]() ![]() The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 85 per cent of infected Americans reported wearing masks always/often in the two weeks before their Covid illness. In the US, most randomised trials of community or household masking show mask-wearing has negligible effect on virus transmission. – An Australian Department of Health document in July 2020. – A note from Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine – A large Danish study published in the top-three medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine – An article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine ![]() – The state-of-the-art WHO report in October 2019, repeated by top WHO doctors Mike Ryan and Maria Van Kerkhove in March 2020 and softened only slightly in the updated guidance on 5 June – The UK’s Pandemic Preparedness Strategy (2011), reaffirmed on 27 February and by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van Tam on 3 April Fauci’s earlier comment accurately stated the existing consensus on benefits versus harms. Roger Koops explains how in the general population, masks confer no benefit and pose a net transmission risk to the wearer and others by trapping the virus on the inside and through surface contamination. But in a CNN interview on 23 October he called for a nationwide universal mask mandate. On 15 September he said a ‘national mandate probably would not work’. In July, after calling for everyone to wear masks, Fauci defended his original advice: ‘in the context of the time, it was correct’ because we had ‘a serious problem with the lack’ of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. ![]() It might make them feel better but doesn’t provide perfect protection and people keep fiddling with it and touching their face. In March, Fauci told people not to walk around with masks. Rather than protect communities, masks have given politicians delusions of omnipotence and liberated some cops to indulge their inner thugs against peaceful dissenters, as we saw in Melbourne. The empirical data from around the world last year mostly validates the previous consensus. Instead, mask mandates have been heavy on fear-mongering and virtue-signalling but light on data and science, overturning, in a couple of months, cumulative scientific consensus built over decades. It can be justified only if the evidence for their efficacy in community protection is compelling and the risk of harms is negligible. Compulsory masking for everyone in all settings is a gross violation of fundamental human rights. Facial expressions are crucial in social interactions, including for babies. Masks are dehumanising and a potent force for stoking mass fear. Biden thus began his presidency by joining a long list of officials who flout the rules they impose on all others, including Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Press secretary Jen Psaki explained Biden was ‘celebrating an evening of a historic day’ and there are ‘bigger issues to worry about at this moment in time’. That evening he was spotted at the Lincoln Memorial sans mask. ![]() On the day of his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed a slew of executive orders, one of which mandated masks in all federal buildings. ![]()
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