To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

I love the way how they tried to lump COVID in with the flu and RSV. Zero reporting on what COVID actually is. The German health minister a few weeks ago has said that it's not a cold, it causes brain inflammation and causes damage to the vascular system, it can cause autoimmune conditions as well.

I guess we will get around to it when the UK does.

Or maybe people aren't being told the truth about covid. At the moment, most people think it's like a cold or flu and it's nothing to worry about. Not a virus that damages the immune system. The repeated nonsense that mild symptoms from covid means a mild case of Covid is the greatest delusion of the pandemic. Covid is a level 3 pathogen which wrecks bodily systems.

A level 3 pathogen? Jesus Christ. Why wasn't I told about this?

The flu also serious but completely different to covid. With a flu infection the white blood cells recover after the flu infection. It doesn't with covid.

They seem to be educated people.

What is the connection between virus hysteria and Genocide?

Can't argue with you because you seem incapable of learning anything.

Why reply to me if you don't want a discussion? Discussion is over anyways. N95 masks work. But let's talk about the type of masks that were worn during the pandemic, even worn by healthcare workers i.e the baggy blue masks (they aren't N95 masks) and don't give the full protection.

Who's sneering? I'm not.

That's a total misrepresentation of what was said… so it's ironic of you to talk about politicisation when you do this.

"Many commentators have claimed that a recently updated Cochrane review shows that ‘masks don’t work,’ which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation," Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, said in The New York Times. "The review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses," Soares-Weiser said, continuing, "Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask wearing itself reduces people’s risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses."

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/scicheck-what-the-cochrane-review-says-about-masks-for-covid-19-and-what-it-doesnt/

Its as clear as day thats explicitly what they did not say. You are misrepresenting both the study results and what was said about them on the basis of a conspiracy theory

The actual editor calls your false take on the events "an inaccurate and misleading interpretation."

I still use a mask on public transport and in busy indoor settings. I still see the odd mask wearer when out and about as well. So far i've managed to avoid catching covid. Covid is still a nasty enough virus to get. So any measure to reduce the chances of getting both that and whatever else is doing the rounds this winter makes perfect sense to me.