Flashback: 2018 Video Shows ‘Public Health Expert’ Admitting Masks Only Work To ‘Cause Alarm’

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Flashback: 2018 Video Shows ‘Public Health Expert’ Admitting Masks Only Work To ‘Cause Alarm’

BY: KENNEDY KRUSE
MAY 11, 2022

A 2018 video of public health professional Laurie Garrett resurfaced on May 9 via Twitter showing that health experts were well aware of the ineffectiveness of masks before the Covid outbreak. Despite this knowledge, masks only recently began disappearing. People can now enter grocery stores and fly on planes without their faces half-hidden, after two years of mass mandates and massive public pressure to comply with them.

In the clip, Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, announces to the National Academy of Medicine that a large-scale study conducted in Japan found that masks do not help defend against viruses such as the 2009 influenza. Instead, the main advantage of masks is to cause frightened behavior.

“The major efficacy of a mask is that it causes alarm in the other person, so you stay away from each other,” Garrett said.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1523675100247203841

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/11/flashback-2018-video-shows-public-health-expert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm/

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‘More Masks, More Covid’: New Study Shows Masks Did Worse Than Nothing Against Coronavirus
May 10, 2022
by Kyle Becker

Public health experts have been advocating masks for the general public ever since Covid began to spike in the United States in mid-2020. Masks soon became the non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) of choice, despite there being a dearth of pre-Covid pandemic documents advocating them as meaningful tools to stop the spread of coronaviruses.

Even as critics have constantly poked holes in masks as a nearly useless and potentially harmful tool for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the public health industry has stuck to their guns and insisted in the face of mounting evidence of their ineffectiveness that the American people should continue to wear them (even toddlers).

A new study has blown the debate wide open: It shows that masks are not only worthless against Covid-19, wearing them might potentially be harmful for people’s physical and mental health and for society in general.  ...

A peer-reviewed journal article in Cureus called the “Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe” has come to the stunning conclusion that the higher the mask compliance rates, the higher the Covid case rates. For those who aren’t well-versed in statistics, this is the exact opposite of what researchers should find if masks indeed “worked.” ...

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In the clip, Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, announces to the National Academy of Medicine that a large-scale study conducted in Japan found that masks do not help defend against viruses such as the 2009 influenza. Instead, the main advantage of masks is to cause frightened behavior.

“The major efficacy of a mask is that it causes alarm in the other person, so you stay away from each other,” Garrett said.ert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm/

That would explain precisely why they appeared to work in early anecdotal observations—people assuming that East Asian nations' low case counts were due to masking—but spectacularly failed to end the pandemic when forced on everyone for prolonged periods of time. You can't stay away from everyone, forever. We are wired for human, person-to-person connection.