Here’s a question for you, brought to you by propagandists: “Could permanent masks in public become Vic policy?”
And here’s the headline: “Could wearing masks in public be the answer to Victoria’s Covid death rises? Researchers think so”.
Researchers is, of course, another word for Experts.
Wearing masks all the time when outside the home during Covid waves could be the best way of preventing deaths, new Melbourne research shows.
In findings that the University of Melbourne research team says could help inform Victorian mask policy in the future, it’s been shown consistent face covering — as opposed to just during peaks — would reduce Covid mortality by 25 per cent over 12 months.
Suppose these Experts’ research, unlike most efforts, is saying the truth about Reality. I checked the official stats, and in all Australia on 1 August there was credited one (1) coronadoom death. Which is to say one (1) associated death. Officials don’t come out and say direct death: just “associated”. If everybody wore a mask, that guy yesterday (I’m assuming it’s a guy) would only be mostly dead.
Here’s the day-to-day associated deaths (overlaid with a useless and distracting model):
The wintertime peak—Down Under is just coming out of their winter—was about 35 deaths on one day. A quarter of that is 8 (rounded to one full human being).
So everybody wearing masks all the time forever into perpetuity would have, Researcher’s model says, saved 8 lives on peak days. Recall we are supposing this is true, even though it’s unbelievable.
The glorious saving effects of masks would not be as high as 8 next winter peak, though. Not if we extrapolate the picture above, which shows, and shows clearly, doom deaths are on the way down, even without mandatory masks. For whatever reason, the Aussie government only reports the total for 2021 (and not 2022), which was 1,122 doom deaths (that I could discover). Associated deaths. 2022 looked to be higher, and 2023 looks more like 2021. And surely 2024 will be lower year.
We don’t need the exact number; its order will do. Because if saving lives is our top goal, and what could be more important!, then we could save even more lives by banning driving.
Or requiring people to drive 25% less.
About 1,200 people died in traffic accidents in Australia last year, a number that is pretty consistent, according to official numbers. This 1,200 will be about the same number who die of the doom in 2023, and likely more than will croak from it in 2024.
To within some low margin of error, then, banning driving, or mandating a 25% reduction in driving, would save at least as many, and likely even more, lives as making going without a mask a crime—assuming there is no error in the mask model. And these would be younger lives, too, since the doom still preferentially kills the old and accidents the young.
So if saving lives is our top priority, and how can it not be when we are guided by a effeminate Cult of Safety First!, there is no excuse. We must ban driving, or greatly curtail it. (Which they are probably thinking of.)
Anyway, this all assumes the mask study has value. Which it does not.
The peer-reviewed paper is “Consistent mask use and SARS?CoV?2 epidemiology: a simulation modelling study”, by Joshua Szanyi and others in The Medical Journal of Australia.
They say “We recently reported the results of an integrated epidemiologic and economic agent-based model that assessed the costs and benefits of more than one hundred coronavirus disease…”
Now an “agent-based model” is exactly as it sounds. It is a model having “agents” doing exactly what they are told to do. The same kind of model (as we document in the Price of Panic) was used to “prove” social distancing “saved lives.”
In other words, you tell the “agents”, as it were, that social distancing or masking works, then you run the model, and, lo, it turns out social distancing and masks work! You then announce “Our computer models predict masking (social distancing) saves lives.”
The propaganda put it this way:
Researcher Samantha Howe said: “If a highly virulent variant of SARS-CoV-2 were to emerge in the next year or so, our modelling supports widespread mask wearing throughout the wave – not just at the peak of the wave.”
The modelling — which simulated the population of Victoria to investigate whether the likelihood of contracting Covid was reduced by wearing a mask at all times outside the home — showed more deaths were prevented if all age groups wore masks, all the time, not just the elderly and frail.
Garbage. All of it. But it’s still The Science.
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Wearing masks to stave off any kind of infection or disease is nonsense.
Hospitals in the 1930s ran an experiment where surgeons and nurses did not wear masks during operations as they felt it interfered with their ability to operate. The results showed no change in patients infection rates post-operative whatsoever. Masks (like green scrubs and stethoscopes) are a status symbol with no medical justification at all.
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Practical clinical reviews
Clinical relevance of masks in the operating room? A systematic review
Author links open overlay panelHalie N. Burdick a, Howard Maibach b
Results
The results indicate no difference in surgical site infections between the operations where masks were worn versus the operations where no mask was worn.
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Wearing of masks in the current public climate makes a HUGE difference to the state's ability to track and control individuals. Therefore I recommend that everyone wears masks when outside their domicile. Dark glasses (several shapes), wigs (several colours and shapes), hats (several shapes) reversible jackets and various other accessories also assist in giving the camera watchers (or at least their AI programs) a hard time.
Cutting small holes in the mouth and nose areas reduces the bacteria collected in the mask and reduces the chance of you getting an infection but makes identification of the mask easy so it is not recommended.
Here's a model for you...100% of people will die from exposure to birth.