Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #4238 –
Masks. Outside hospital settings an abject waste of time. All the science says that. Both pre and post COVID.
No RCT study in over 40 years has come to any other conclusion.
In just a few seconds using Google Scholar I found more than 50 RCTs for mask use, including mask use in homes and public, that show good mask efficacy going back to and including historical documents from 1910.
Here is even a conclusion from one completed in Australia back in 2008 after SARS that covers both SARS and Influenza.
Overall, evidence from RCTs and observational studies is informative, but not compelling on its own. Both the Australian influenza RCT and the Beijing households observational trial found around 80% efficacy among compliant subjects, and the one SARS household study of sufficient power found 70% efficacy for protecting the wearer. However, we do not know whether the results from influenza or SARS will correspond to results for SARS-CoV-2, and the single observational study of SARS-CoV-2 might not be replicated in other communities.
( C. R. MacIntyre et al., Randomized, Controlled clinical Trial of mask use in households to prevent respiratory virus transmission. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 12, e328 (2008). )
The big problem with mask efficacy seems to be the Norbits who refuse to wear them or refuse to wear them properly, string em high!
Maybe the search engine Flyboy77 is using is shizen, something has to be wrong for him to have missed so many obvious RCTs!