Masks

2020 was not only the year of Covid-19 but also the year of the mask when we were encouraged to wear masks to save our lives. In fact, the Surgeon General even created a mask out of a t-shirt. Do you remember that moment? 2020 was the year that I argued with friends and family about mask use primarily the fact masks would be useless outdoors. I even went through several studies about indoor airflow and how difficult it was to study viral movement indoors let alone outdoors. Well, my argument fell on deaf ears not because I didn’t use the available data and research, but I wasn’t using my emotions like the others and I’m not the CDC.

Well, we recently had a study come out stating the masks were useless. In fact, you can read an article pertaining to the study in the New York Times titled “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?” The authors of the study looked at everything and came to a conclusion I had in 2020. We were lied to by the CDC and continue to be lied to. Our hospitals still push the myth which I suspect to more to allay the fear that many were induced with over Covid-19.

To be fair, you can wear an effective mask but not the type you think will save you. Even if the N95 were effective you are not wearing it properly. Anyone working in a hospital should be familiar with having to be fitted for N95 masks. You can’t just wear any old N95 mask. To be protected, you need a special type of mask that few would even purchase, and NO that plastic SpongeBob container doesn’t work, though it does make you look like an idiot. The weave of the masks are not tight enough to prevent the Covid-19 virus or viruses from entering or leaving. You may catch a sneeze or a cough with your own fluid but viruses can escape.

What about the study being sloppy and they didn’t take into account the mask mandate wasn’t enforce enough? Well, there is plenty of data that out there that shows this thought process is false. We have all fifty states where some had mask mandates and others did not. There is no data showing masks made a difference. Hospitals, the one place were people are fit-tested and during this panic pandemic wore them. Again, there is no data showing masks prevented anything. Shall I repeat it again? The data is there and shows that masks prevented nothing.

I get it. Your emotions and feeling are guiding you to continue to believe masks work and did work then. Yes, the CDC continues to look like the clown version of The Onion with their poor study on masks and what they continue to recommend, so you may be influenced by them. However, if you pause and catch your breath you should be able to squash the irrational fear that was drummed up by your government, pharmaceutical industry and so-called medical experts and recognize that something is rotten in the State of Denmark. It is time to put your feelings away and curb your fear and understand you were bamboozled going on three years now.