Again, my brother from another mother shows why we are related (ha ha), Bridle highlights again what we knew 4 years ago (see my review & substack) that masks in COVID (respiratory entity) was useless

see my reviews below; as Bridle is on point, along comes this McMaster study that school closures were failures (in line with all I/we said 4 years now) yet masks & vacicnes were good! Bullshit crock!

"there is no evidence that the use of masks in public will protect an individual from infection"

Now see McMaster bullocks research here below and this researcher, this woke researcher talking garbage, and she knows, she wants to get play so strokes the low hanging fruit of school closures BAD, yet pushes mRNA COVID vaccines etc. This paper was more a shill for vaccine in kids and shame on her, she should have been just honest. She was not. She has no evidence to make the statements on vaccines or masks or transmission she did.

See my prior review over 3 years ago on school closures worthlessness and even harms:

Now see this sub-optimal weak political piece below as it is really a paper to promote vaccines, read the researcher below:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(23)00312-7/abstract

Yet, she goes on to state this tripe and drivel in support of COVID vaccines which was what she really wanted to state, not about the school closures, duh, we did not need your study to tell us this, my review in AIER was there near 3.5 years…

What this researcher states on kids transmitting and vaccines is just plain flat wrong…can she show us one child, one healthy child who got COVID virus and got ill or died from it? She cannot! She is talking junk tripe, I am ashamed that this was published but this piece was so she can get the vaccine support in. The rest is junk.

https://www.aier.org/article/masking-a-careful-review-of-the-evidence/

‘The question on whether to wear a face mask or not during the Covid-19 pandemic remains emotional and contentious. Why? This question about the utility of face coverings (which has taken on a talisman-like life) is now overwrought with steep politicization regardless of political affiliation (e.g. republican or liberal/democrat). 

Importantly, the evidence just is and was not there to support mask use for asymptomatic people to stop viral spread during a pandemic. While the evidence may seem conflicted, the evidence (including the peer-reviewed evidence) actually does not support its use and leans heavily toward masks having no significant impact in stopping spread of the Covid virus. 

In fact, it is not unreasonable at this time to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are, have absolutely no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus, and current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. All this to say and as so comprehensively documented by Dr. Roger W. Koops in a recent American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) publication, there is no clear scientific evidence that masks (surgical or cloth) work to mitigate risk to the wearer or to those coming into contact with the wearer, as they are currently worn in everyday life and specifically as we refer to Covid-19. 

We present the evidence in full below. We also state that should adequate evidence emerge that supports the effectiveness of surgical and cloth masks in this Covid pandemic (or any similar type masks), then we will change our position and conclude otherwise. Our focus is on face masks for  Covid but we will touch gently on the issue of school closures and lockdowns, as these three issues remain the key public health policy catastrophes we have faced as global societies…’ 

https://www.aier.org/article/masking-children-tragic-unscientific-and-damaging/

‘Summary: Children do not readily acquire SARS-CoV-2 (very low risk), spread it to other children or teachers, or endanger parents or others at home. This is the settled science. In the rare cases where a child contracts Covid virus it is very unusual for the child to get severely ill or die. Masking can do positive harm to children – as it can to some adults. But the cost benefit analysis is entirely different for adults and children – particularly younger children. Whatever arguments there may be for consenting adults – children should not be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Of course, zero risk is not attainable – with or without masks, vaccines, therapeutics, distancing or anything else medicine may develop or government agencies may impose.’