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Last week it was
reported that the
Australian state of Victoria may be considering "permanent" facemask mandates to achieve "zero-Covid".
Now, we don't need to get into the personal liberty implications of such a law, or the
near-infinite supply of evidence that masks don't work to prevent the transmission of respiratory disease.
They don't work, they never worked. Mandating them was a political move designed to make the fake Covid "pandemic" appear real, and their continued use is a symptom of brainwashing or a by-product of chronic virtue signaling.
The mask debate, such as it was, is
over.
No, the only aspect of this development worth talking about is the "evidence" used to support the position - and trust me, the quotes are entirely justified.
The "study" which claims to demonstrate the benefits of permanent masking was published in the
Medical Journal of Australia last week and titled
"Consistent mask use and SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemiology: a simulation modelling study".
"Simulation modelling study" is very much the key phrase there. For those who don't know,
"simulation modelling studies" involve feeding data into a computer programme, then asking it to form conclusions.
Clearly, they are only as reliable and useful as the data you use. In fact, you can very easily make them produce any result you want by feeding in the "right" (bad) data.
In this particular modelling study they started out by telling the computer that cloth masks reduce transmission by 53% and respirators reduced it by 80%:
Odds ratios for the relative risk of infection for people exposed to an infected person (wearing a mask v not wearing a mask) were set at 0.47 for cloth and surgical masks and 0.20 for respirators
Essentially, they told their computer that masks prevent disease...and then said "ok, computer, since you now know masks prevent disease - what would happen if everybody wore them all the time?"
The computer then told them - obviously - that nobody would get sick.
Because they made it logically impossible for it to say anything else.
But there's a bit more to it.
Comment: Want to compromise brain activity? Just add SARS-CoV-2 spike!