Australian Covid Mask Mandate

Masks don’t work. At least a dozen scientific studies have shown that masks do nothing to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.

One meta-analysis published by the CDC in May 2020 found “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks”.
Another study with over 8000 subjects found masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.”
There are literally too many to quote them all, but you can read them: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Or read a summary by SPR here.
While some studies have been done claiming to show mask do work for Covid, they are all seriously flawed. One relied on self-reported surveys as data. Another was so badly designed a panel of experts demand it be withdrawn. A third was withdrawn after its predictions proved entirely incorrect.
The WHO commissioned their own meta-analysis in the Lancet, but that study looked only at N95 masks and only in hospitals. [For full run down on the bad data in this study click here.]

Aside from scientific evidence, there’s plenty of real-world evidence that masks do nothing to halt the spread of disease.
For example, North Dakota and South Dakota had near-identical case figures, despite one having a mask-mandate and the other not:

In Kansas, counties without mask mandates actually had fewer Covid “cases” than counties with mask mandates. And despite masks being very common in Japan, they had their worst flu outbreak in decades in 2019.
 
mellowyellow said:
We take it very seriously.

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Maybe we need to create anti-mask/anti-vax colonies like we did with leprosy. Put them on a deserted island where they can't cause anyone else harm. They'll be able to freely interact with and infect each other at will. Provide them with a generous supply of horse de-wormer and stacks of Bibles, but if they want science to assist in their treatment, they'll need to rely on the few like-minded doctors they'll have, who are probably not the best and the brightest in their field.

That may be the only way we're ever going to recover from this pandemic.
 
From as early as March 2020, studies done in Italy were suggesting 50-75% of positive Covid tests had no symptoms. Another UK study from August 2020 found as much as 86% of “Covid patients”experienced no viral symptoms at all.

It is literally impossible to tell the difference between an “asymptomatic case” and a false-positive test result. "From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,”.

A meta-analysis of Covid studies, published by Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2020, found that asymptomatic carriers had a less than 1% chance of infecting people within their household. Another study, done on influenza in 2009, found, "limited evidence to suggest the importance of [asymptomatic] transmission. The role of asymptomatic or presymptomatic influenza-infected individuals in disease transmission may have been overestimated…”
 
Average age of “Covid death” is greater than the average life expectancy. The average age of a “Covid death” in the UK is 82.5 years. In Italy it’s 86. Germany, 83. Switzerland, 86. Canada, 86. The US, 78, Australia, 82.

In almost all cases the median age of a “Covid death” is higher than the national life expectancy.

As such, for most of the world, the “pandemic” has had little-to-no impact on life expectancy. Contrast this with the Spanish flu, which saw a 28% drop in life expectancy in the US in just over a year.

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In March 2020, the Italian government published statistics showing 99.2% of their “Covid deaths” had at least one serious comorbidity.

These included cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s, kidney failure and diabetes (among others). Over 50% of them had three or more serious pre-existing conditions.

This pattern has held up in all other countries over the course of the “pandemic”. An October 2020 FOIA request to the UK’s ONS revealed less than 10% of the official “Covid death” count at that time had Covid as the sole cause of death.
 
Irwin said:
Maybe we need to create anti-mask/anti-vax colonies like we did with leprosy. Put them on a deserted island where they can't cause anyone else harm. They'll be able to freely interact with and infect each other at will. Provide them with a generous supply of horse de-wormer and stacks of Bibles, but if they want science to assist in their treatment, they'll need to rely on the few like-minded doctors they'll have, who are probably not the best and the brightest in their field.

That may be the only way we're ever going to recover from this pandemic.
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We have recovered from the pandemic. Covid-19 is now classified as endemic, like the rhinovirus and influenza and other viruses.
 
Countries around the globe have been defining a “Covid death” as a “death by any cause within 28/30/60 days of a positive test”.

Healthcare officials from Italy, Germany, the UK, US, Northern Ireland and others have all admitted to this practice:

Removing any distinction between dying of Covid, and dying of something else after testing positive for Covid will naturally lead to over-counting of “Covid deaths”. British pathologist Dr John Lee was warning of this “substantial over-estimate” as early as last spring. Other mainstream sources have reported it, too.
 
There has been NO unusual excess mortality. The press has called 2020 the UK’s “deadliest year since world war two”, but this is misleading because it ignores the massive increase in the population since that time. A more reasonable statistical measure of mortality is Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR):
By this measure, 2020 isn’t even the worst year for mortality since 2000, In fact since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020.


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Irwin said:
Maybe we need to create anti-mask/anti-vax colonies like we did with leprosy. Put them on a deserted island where they can't cause anyone else harm. They'll be able to freely interact with and infect each other at will. Provide them with a generous supply of horse de-wormer and stacks of Bibles, but if they want science to assist in their treatment, they'll need to rely on the few like-minded doctors they'll have, who are probably not the best and the brightest in their field.

That may be the only way we're ever going to recover from this pandemic.
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Sure, that sounds reasonable (sort of), but have you ever considered the absurdity of requiring the vaccinated to be protected from the unvaccinated by forcing the unvaccinated to use the vaccine that didn't protect the vaccinated?

Added: I don't have any horse dewormer nor a Bible. And I've already had Covid.

And I'm not much of a fascist. Not interested in concentration camps.
 
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Similarly, in the US the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels:
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I appreciate your posts, I often find them logical and persuasive. However I am not sure I agree with this one. Here is a blow up of your figure:
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And while you are right the 2020 US death rate is at about the same levels as 2004, and earlier it sure looks like a deviation from the trend to me.
 
Alligatorob said:
I appreciate your posts, I often find them logical and persuasive. However I am not sure I agree with this one. Here is a blow up of your figure:
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And while you are right the 2020 US death rate is at about the same levels as 2004, and earlier it sure looks like a deviation from the trend to me.
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True, but, 2020 has experienced many other deaths that cannot be attributed to covid (suicide, drowning, overdose, and the one that sticks in my craw the most, ventilators). That has not stopped some from lumping all deaths in the covid column.

Putting someone on a ventilator who is suffering from influenza, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or any other condition which restricts breathing or affects the lungs, will not alleviate any of those symptoms. In fact, it will almost certainly make it worse, and will kill many of them.

Intubation tubes are a source of potential a infection known as “ventilator-associated pneumonia”, which studies show affects up to 28% of all people put on ventilators, and kills 20-55% of those infected.
Mechanical ventilation is also damaging to the physical structure of the lungs, resulting in “ventilator-induced lung injury”, which can dramatically impact quality of life, and even result in death.
Experts estimate 40-50% of ventilated patients die, regardless of their disease. Around the world, between 66 and 86% of all “Covid patients” put on ventilators died.

According to an “undercover nurse”, ventilators were being used so improperly in New York, that they were destroying patients’ lungs.
 

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