CVL4
The Curated Viewing List... The Cochran Report
Likely many of you have been hearing about The Cochran Review which has established rather firmly that masking had no positive impact in the reduction of viral spread throughout the Covid ordeal.
Indeed, this from the study conclusions:
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks.
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks.
See the study HERE.
To be fully transparent, we at The BEC have always considered masks to be fomites… meaning, an object that can be a source of infection spread. Contrary to the view that masks help to reduce spread, we consider masks as the opposite of good hygiene, as a nasty thing nobody would want to touch ever again. Moist with droplets, never washed, improperly worn, shoved in the pocket, then back on the face, hung on the rear view mirror, in the house shedding virus around the family, back in the pocket and worn again at work.
To use the technical term, masks are yucky!
And it never made sense to us that they can have any practical value in reducing the spread of a virus so tiny that it’s invisible to light microscopes and only visible to electron microscopes.
First, we stop in again with our friend John Campbell.
We tend to return to Campbell with frequency because he was very highly trusted and respected (and viewed) throughout the Covid pandemic. He was pro-masking and now has this to say about it:
“I want to apologize for advocating for the use of masks… from the end of 2020 through all of 2021. I was wrong. I was wrong all that time.”
John Campbell
Whether a cloth mask or a well-fitted N95, it made no difference… equally useless.
But what was the CDC telling us in February 2021?
“We’ve learned a lot about masks over the past year. Today I want to share with you some of the new science that is emerging about masks, and what we know now that we didn’t know when the pandemic started. The science is clear: Everyone needs to be wearing a mask. When I wear a mask it protects you and it protects me. We all have to wear them. Wearing any type of mask performs significantly better than not wearing a mask.”
Dr. Rochelle Walensky
Though Dr Walensky was wrong, we do not expect an apology to be forthcoming.
Take a look at this short video to get a better sense of the flip-flop inconsistencies from public health officials regarding masking guidance.
Birx, Fauci, Walensky… the public health establishment… they are all untrustworthy.