Anti-mask protesters' new weapon: wearing masks that offer no COVID-19 protection

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Researchers shoot holes in study touted for confirming 'masks work' in curbing COVID

An acclaimed study on the effectiveness of masks in reducing symptomatic COVID-19 is facing new scrutiny after a researcher highlighted the minuscule infection differences between "treatment" and control groups randomized across 600 Bangladeshi villages

 

Accused of design flaws and overstating its findings when it was released in late August, the study's newly released data show only 20 more symptomatic COVID cases in the villages that didn't receive masks and related education, reminders and "role modeling by community leaders."

In a total study population of 342,126 adults, 1,106 people in the control group tested positive, compared to 1,086 in the treatment group. The latter group represented 52% of the study population.

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Brief Update on Austria

Nov 27

The situation in Austria is, as the saying goes, overly dynamic of late. It is, of course, quite impossible to summarise everything that is going on, but I shall try to provide you with some of the information that isn’t readily available in the ‘international’ media.

Dreadlocks and Karma warriors, right-wingers and concerned parents. It surely was a rather unusual mix of protesters in Vienna last Saturday (see my take here). One thing united the 40,000 (according to the police) to 100,000 (according to the various organisers) people: criticism of power and anger at the failure of politics. If there was one underlying theme, words such as ‘it’s (more than) enough’ would probably be it. Still, these protests were the largest demonstration since 2000 when some 150,000 people protested against the conservative-and-far-right government.

Still, the situation on the ground is rapidly evolving. While there is quite drastic gaslighting ongoing everywhere, details on the Covidistan régime are quite scarce to come by. Yes, a lot of things seem ‘normal’, as far as this can be said in this fourth round of house arrests (it’s, again, two weeks to ‘crush the curve’, this time), and on top of it, the putschists now seek to make the experimental gene therapies masquerading as ‘vaccines’ mandatory by 1 Feb. 2022, all evidence to the contrary be damned.

More Protests Virtually Everywhere

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Group of unvaccinated people refuse to leave NYC Cheesecake Factory, four arrested

On Tuesday, a large group of people that said they were unvaccinated participated in a "sit in" at a New York City Cheesecake Factory restaurant, where they were confronted by police after refusing to leave the premise.

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December 15, 2021

On Tuesday, a large group of people that said they were unvaccinated participated in a "sit in" at a New York City Cheesecake Factory restaurant, where they were confronted by police after refusing to leave the premise.

Around 30 people went to the Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Queens, reportedly skipping the line and refusing to check in at the host stand, where they would have been required to show their vaccination cards under New York City's vaccine requirements.

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The study the CDC used to justify masking in schools is reportedly "profoundly misleading" and has "significant flaws"

Millions upon millions of U.S. children have been fully masked up at school this year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited, in part, a study out of Arizona that appeared to demonstrate the need for, and effectiveness of, masking among schoolchildren.

Yet, at least according to multiple experts, that study should not have been cited as evidence in favor of universal masking:

 

[T]he Arizona study at the center of the CDC's back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. "You can't learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study," Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article. Masks may well help prevent the spread of COVID, some of these experts told me, and there may well be contexts in which they should be required in schools. But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate. The Arizona study's lead authors stand by their work, and so does the CDC. But the critics were forthright in their harsh assessments. Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic review of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research "so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse."

Okay, um, it's great that we're learning this now—better late than never—but, you know, the CDC cited this study three months ago. Why are we just learning about its apparently glaring flaws now?

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The study the CDC used to justify masking in schools is reportedly "profoundly misleading" and has "significant flaws"

Okay, um, it's great that we're learning this now—better late than never—but, you know, the CDC cited this study three months ago. Why are we just learning about its apparently glaring flaws now?

Why? 2 words The Narrative

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Fauci says masks on planes will always be necessary no matter what: 'Go that extra step'

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Dec 22, 2021

HUGE crowds rally to protest against 'green tick' tyranny

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