By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)
(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)
CASE CLOSED: MASKS DON'T WORK
A major new gold standard Cochrane review study has come to a conclusion that only the utterly brainwashed would consider at all shocking at this point: masks don't really work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses. Never did, and never will. Not even the vaunted N95. Handwashing is likely modestly effective, but masks are basically a joke overall, and not a very funny one either.
This concurs with over a century of research that came out overwhelmingly in support of the anti-mask side of the debate. In fact, by 1919 it was practically settled science that these devices aren't anywhere near what they were cracked up to be, a consensus which prevailed until March 2020. Then the pandemic narrative took over and turned the science upside down for nearly three years straight, while any studies were to the contrary were systematically file-drawered for far longer than those supporting the narrative. And now the entire pandemic narrative has collapsed faster than formerly healthy young athletes on the field after being jabbed.
We recently noted how the ever-insightful Ian Miller has so thoroughly debunked, deboned, sliced, diced, and julienned the pro-mask arguments, and laid waste to their utterly scorched remains for good. And be sure check out the excellent Fargo study from Josh Stevenson et al. about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet, with the very least biases or confounding. Spoiler alert: masks STILL don't work. Not for kids, not for adults, not for no one.
Oh, and let's not forget the dreaded Foegen Effect as well. And other harms as well, see here. That literally makes masks WORSE than useless. Jettison them!
To the anti-mask side: you are now hereby overwhelmingly vindicated, and really always have been in fact. You have literally passed the biggest functional IQ test in all of modern history. To the pro-mask side: we are still waiting for you to apologize. Yesterday. And to those who switched jerseys anytime after February 2022 (that is, only when it became socially acceptable to do so), you are fooling no one.
QED
UPDATE: Some may pedantically point out that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", therefore "no one can really say" that masks don't work. True, you cannot (definitively) prove a negative. But given the totality of the research and real-world evidence, it would be slothful induction (if not magical thinking as well) to still believe that masks have any sort of net benefit at all. If they did have a net benefit, it would have been self-evident long ago. We need to see the forest for the trees.
"But...but...they worked in Japan!" See here for a good debunking of that myth as well.
And in case the pro-masker zealots pathetically trot out the fatally flawed Boston school mask study in desperation, rest assured that Ian Miller has successfully laid waste to that one as well. And so has the ever-insightful Emily Burns, as well as Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, one of the authors of the Fargo study.
AND THE VERY BEST COVID (AND FLU) "VACCINE" IS....VITAMIN D!
According to a new meta-analysis of gold standard randomized controlled trials (RCTs), Vitamin D cuts the risk of death from Covid in HALF (51%) and reduces the risk of ICU admission by nearly three-fourths (72%). This is quite impressive, and as we know, certainly works way better than what any of the Covid jabs out there have to offer (beyond the first few weeks or months or so, after which jab efficacy turns negative), not to mention without all of those nasty side effects like fever, chills, blood clots, stroke, heart attack, sudden death, and runny nose.
(Note that it also seems to outperform the seasonal flu vaccines as well, which are even weaker and leakier.)
So why isn't this front page news? Scratch that, why wasn't it front page news at the very beginning of the pandemic, as I'm sure there were some studies being conducted, and the benefits of Vitamin D were already well-known for the common cold and flu, giving it further biological plausibility. We know exactly why: 1) there is no profit in Vitamin D or any other vitamins or nutrients, and 2) the powers that be had a pandemic narrative to maintain, for power and control. A narrative that they were apparently willing to sacrifice literally millions of lives worldwide to maintain, including over a million Americans.
In fact, as we previously noted in an earlier article, a Bangladesh study found that just three nutrients (Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc) would have been enough to reduce significant case and death rates to below-pandemic levels, thus defanging the pandemic while allowing natural herd immunity to develop. No lockdowns, masks, antisocial distancing, NPIs, or jabs needed. Let that sink in for a moment.
And that's BEFORE we get into the widespread censorship of HCQ, Ivermectin, budesonide inhalers, and stuff like that which had plenty of evidence in its favor. Ditto for antibiotics like azithromycin and doxycycline for secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was responsible for an unknown (but likely very high) percentage of "Covid" pneumonia deaths.
And let's not forget turmeric, resveratrol, fisetin, quercetin, NAC, thiamine, and niacin as well. And also nasal sprays like Xlear, and mouthwashes as well. All of which either censored or pooh-poohed.
How will the purveyors of the official narrative ever live this down?
P.S. Don't forget the complementary Vitamin K2 along with the Vitamin D3 as well.
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