Mask Studies and Lack of CDC Reliability (Corruption?)
Is The Voice of The CDC, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Journal a Non-Peer-Reviewed Biased Publication?
One of multiple topics over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic that made it abundantly clear that our government, health officials, big pharma and the legacy/mainstream media did NOT have the health of the public as their main goal is masking.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Teflon Toni Fauci correctly said that masks are not effective against a respiratory virus so they would provide little protection to the wearer or anyone else. But then, for some reason he did a complete 180, said they were protective, mandates were implemented, and he even said we should double up on our masks.
This complete nonsense broke the flood gates on the virtue signaling of mask wearing and the vitriolic attack on anyone that even thought to question their effectiveness, never mind people that refused to wear them in public.
It was utter panic riddled nonsense started by the so called “experts” and fueled by those who have no ability to use rational critical thinking when they are successfully put into a state of fear.
The public and legacy media rhetoric and the government/social media censorship around masking was so strong one couldn’t even mention that decades of past evidence showed that masks do not work against respiratory, aerosolized viruses…the end. We couldn’t even point people to previous recommendations from expert virologists, epidemiologists and public health agencies on what used to be the excepted actions to take during a viral pandemic because the standard recommended actions did not involve masking. Why? Because it doesn’t work! Heck, even the WHO recommended against public masking for viral pandemics prior to 2019.
Nope, if anyone said any of those things, they were labelled a grandma killer and a threat to society as a whole. And if you sent people the papers, studies, and documents of previously recommended pandemic measures they wouldn’t even read them.
It was like some virtue signaling fantasy world cult took control of everyone.
However, some people were quick to pick up on what was happening and anyone with a gram of integrity who truly understood what science actually is, knew something wasn’t right very early on.
And the only reason I can see for pushing such an unsupported, previously understood to be ineffective pandemic control measure with such ferocity, was fear. Make everyone as scared as possible so they will get the vaccine when we role it out and we’ll all make a bunch of money.
Some would say that’s a bunch of BS because this time is different and new information from the pandemic proves masks really are effective.
Since that argument it ignores decades of evidence to the contrary, it holds no merit, but now we, the masking dissidents, can point to a peer-reviewed study showing that the “new” evidence on masking not only prove masks don’t work against SARS-CoV-2, but also that the conclusions of masking studies saying that they work are not supported by the data gathered in the actual studies. Unreliable at best, fraud at worst.
Let’s dive into the study.
The study is an analysis of all studies on masking published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). For those not familiar, this is the CDCs scientific publication, and is known as “The Voice of the CDC”. Wow, what authoritative use of language. Replace “the CDC” with “God” and see how it sounds.
Maybe I took that analogy a bit too far, but one would expect that a supposed scientific, objective data driven government agency would have an objective, third party peer-review process for all papers published
in “The Voice of the CDC” that drives their policy decisions, right?
Shocker, they don’t. The peer-review process for MMWR is entirely internal and the CDC is tight lipped on what the process involves.
Some of you knew to call nonsense on the MMRW long ago because we prefer…
The study searched for all mask related articles published in MMWR from 1978-2023. 77 articles were found, and all were published after 2019. I find it interesting that prior to 2019 there were no studies on masking in MMWR. Probably because it was pointless to study them because it was already well known they didn’t work, but once the pandemic hit, it became politically (or maybe financially, or ideologically) necessity to “prove” they worked. IMO.
After reviewing these studies, the authors found that they were not of the highest quality (randomized control trials); less than 20% produced statistically significant results; they used casual, unsupported language, yet they all concluded that masks were effective even though the data from their study did not support such a conclusion.
This is deeply concerning since this is the information used to make public policy and the American CDC has a large influence around the world.
Incompetence or purposeful deception?
Here are some of the findings in the author’s own words:
The authors of the study also had pretty strong words about the CDC and MMWR, here are some excerpts from their paper.
Incompetence, purposely misleading the public, fraud, what do y’all think?
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