12.20.21 – Brownstone
“More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms”
By Paul Elias Alexander
[COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: Dr. Fauci and the mainstream media are whipping up the hysteria about the new BA.5 COVID variant. The same false talking points are being blasted across the country to create new fears, and the public is being told to “mask up” once again. Of course, they are being told to get the COVID vax and boosters while at the same time ignoring the fact that upwards of 79% of the hospitalizations are occurring in those already vaxed. Also, medical studies from the U. S. and from across the world are showing that the more a person COVID vaxes, the weaker his/her immunity system becomes to fight infections.
To keep from repeating the same mistakes over and over again, it is time to take another look at the 150 comparative studies and articles on mask ineffectiveness and harms.]
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12.20.21 – Brownstone
“More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms”
By Paul Elias Alexander
Excerpts from this article:
It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are being used (without other forms of PPE protection), have no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus. Current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely ineffective.
My focus is on COVID face masks and the prevailing science that we have had for nearly 20 months. Yet I wish to address this mask topic at a 50,000-foot level on the lockdown restrictive policies in general. I build on the backs of the fine work done by Gupta, Kulldorff, and Bhattacharya on the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) and similar impetus by Dr. Scott Atlas (advisor to POTUS Trump) who, like myself, was a strong proponent for a focused type of protection that was based on an age-risk stratified approach.
Because we saw very early on that the lockdowns were the single greatest mistake in public health history. We knew the history and knew they would not work. We also knew very early of COVID’s risk stratification. Sadly, our children will bear the catastrophic consequences and not just educationally, of the deeply flawed school closure policy for decades to come (particularly our minority children who were least able to afford this). Many are still pressured to wear masks and punished for not doing so.
I present the masking ‘body of evidence’ below (n=167 studies and pieces of evidence), comprised of comparative effectiveness research as well as related evidence and high-level reporting. To date, the evidence has been stable and clear that masks do not work to control the virus and they can be harmful and especially to children.
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*PLEASE GO TO THIS LINK TO SEE THE MORE THAN 150 COMPARATIVE STUDIES AND ARTICLES ON MASK INEFFECTIVENESS AND HARMS:
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**PLEASE GO TO THIS LINK TO SEE THE MORE THAN 400 STUDIES WITH TABLES BROKEN DOWN INTO SPECIFIC SUBJECTS SURROUNDING COVID AND THE RESULTS OF VARIOUS LOCKDOWN PROCEDURES:
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Dr Alexander holds a PhD. He has experience in epidemiology and in the teaching clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology. Dr Alexander is a former Assistant Professor at McMaster University in evidence-based medicine and research methods; former COVID Pandemic evidence-synthesis consultant advisor to WHO-PAHO Washington, DC (2020) and former senior advisor to COVID Pandemic policy in Health and Human Services (HHS) Washington, DC (A Secretary), US government; worked/appointed in 2008 at WHO as a regional specialist/epidemiologist in Europe's Regional office Denmark, worked for the government of Canada as an epidemiologist for 12 years, appointed as the Canadian in-field epidemiologist (2002-2004) as part of an international CIDA funded, Health Canada executed project on TB/HIV co-infection and MDR-TB control (involving India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan, posted to Kathmandu); employed from 2017 to 2019 at Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Virginia USA as the evidence synthesis meta-analysis systematic review guideline development trainer; currently a COVID-19 consultant researcher in the US-C19 research group.
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