Masks! What are they good for?The CDC finally said that vaccinated people can ditch the masks. Where I live (in a free red state), a lot of people promptly did. Now, at stores, nobody asks whether those without masks are vaccinated. We trust them to make their own decisions. However, a lot of people are still wearing those skimpy, often dirty rags on their faces. It turns out, though, that they should ditch them, too, because a new, comprehensive study found that masks made no difference to the Wuhan virus’s spread.
Because I’d come from California, with its many wildfires, I had N95 masks on hand when the virus started. We wore them and they may well have stopped a few virus particles from passing through. Of course, the fact that my limited supply meant that we also re-wore them and, about once a week, washed them with liquid detergent suggests that their protection was dubious at best.
Compared to our fellow Americans, though, we were well protected. Whenever we ventured out, we saw people wearing the equivalent of t-shirts or napkins on their faces. They had them under their noses, they touched them constantly, they shuffled them repeatedly in and out of pockets and bags and generally rendered them completely ineffective at stopping viruses. My feeling all year was that the masks were pure theater.
I was right. A study from the University of Louisville, one that initially believed that masks did help, looked at CDC data found -- and discovered that masks were useless when it came to stopping COVID’s spread:-- excerpt, rest at link above --
I was permanently banned from Facebook for spreading this information.
