CDC director continues mask mandates despite Gold Standard review proving masks ineffective

We follow the science... but only the 'science' that we can (ab)use to support our desired policies.

Two weeks ago, an update to the Cochrane Review 'Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses', was published.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

The authors conclude:

"The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection."

Said differently, masks are medically ineffective in real world trials. Looking at all the available evidence, there is not even a small signal that masks have any medical benefit against respiratory 'infections'.

Mask zealots will claim that absence of evidence of efficacy is not the same as evidence of inefficacy. This is only true if no high quality unbiased research has been done, but this is not the case here.

'Scientists' did everything in their power to make face masks seem effective, and still they failed.

Note that the Cochrane Review is considered the Gold Standard, because it is a meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Whether these reviews were the gold standard or still are is absolutely debatable, especially when RANDOMIZED controlled trials in many cases should be renamed to RESULTS controlled trials.

The 'scientists' involved in these trials do everything in their power to get the trial to show a certain effect. For example, that a highly profitable medication is necessary, safe and effective, or that an unprofitable medication is unsafe and/or ineffective.

The Science™ is marketing and propaganda disguised as the scientific method.

'Health' institutions always claim to follow the science, but nothing could be further from the truth. They use science as a pretext for whatever policy they want.

Members of the COVID cult believe the following: A meta-analysis of high quality RCT's is merely the Gold Standard. The Platinum Standard is any claim by the Holy Representatives of The Science™, such as Walensky and Fauci.

Rochelle Walensky dismisses the results of the Cochrane Review, because (1) SARS-CoV-2 is supposed to have presymptomatic spread (i.e. that you can transmit the pathogen before you experience symptoms) and (2) adherence to mask wearing in the trials was imperfect.

The claim about presymptomatic spread has never been adequately proven for any respiratory 'infection'. In fact, NOTHING about the pseudo-science virology is adequately proven. Regardless, even if there is presymptomatic spread, masks are still ineffective, and the benefits definitely don't exceed the costs.

Even if masks were effective at stopping the spread, this would be undesirable, because this spread leads to naturally acquired immunity, i.e. a free self-spreading natural vaccine which is vastly superior to any artificial vaccine.

Adherence to mask wearing may have been imperfect, but this is always the case in real-world settings.

SOURCE: https://twitter.com/michaelpsenger/status/1625643023882403840