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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

ARE MASKS COMING BACK THIS WINTER?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The attempt to remask the public has started. And it’s rapidly moved past COVID as a reason to know of any basic respiratory illnesses. But does science justify it? Jefferey and Del break down the latest PR push surrounding masking.
#DoNotComply #NoMoreMandates #Freedom #MasksDontWork


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0:00.0

We make an effort here to report on poor public health policy, bad science, really so it doesn't get woven into the fabric of society and

0:08.7

cause suffering like we have seen with the masking of children and we're seeing now a push we're seeing an official attempt to normalize masking Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles.

0:21.8

The headlines look like this, this is out of the LA Times, health officials are urging mass again amid high COVID and flu levels and you look into this article it says we quote we also encourage you to wear a high quality wealth fitting mass to prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses.

0:39.5

This is Dr. Rochelle Wollinsky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control Prevention said in a briefing with reporters so now respiratory illnesses.

0:46.6

Colts, just common colds now you're going to be wearing a mask that's the recommendation from the CDC and so we look and you know that they're starting to loop it in there so now it's just it's high COVID we have surgeon COVID people have that memory of the last couple years.

1:00.4

Oh yeah and cough cough flu to so we look at the CDC's own in house journal we go back to this just to inform this decision from Rochelle Wollinsky.

1:11.7

This is the emerging infectious diseases is their journal and this is the title of this article here some 2020 non pharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza non healthcare settings personal protective environmental measures so you go into this study and you go down under masks under face mask and it says this.

1:28.4

In our systemic review we identified 10 randomized controlled trials that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during get this 1946 to July 27th 2018 so kind of a big duration there in pool analysis we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission use of face mask now they go on to say there is limited evidence for effectiveness and preventing.

1:58.0

Inflenzivirus transmission either when worn by infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure again they repeat our systemic review found no significant effective face mask on transmission of laboratory confirmed influenza.

2:12.4

And now you're seeing the same headline coming out of the New York Times this is a concerted effort here this is the attempt it's time to wear a mask again health experts say which health experts.

2:22.9

And go into this article here and it says there is strong evidence that mass help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory illnesses so no longer covid but that word strong evidence is hyperlinked in this article you click on one of those hyperlinks and it brings it to this study as this is supposed to back up their their claim of strong evidence face mask and hygiene prevent influenza transmission in households you go into the study and you look at this it says hand hygiene with or without face mask it seemed to reduce influenza transmission but the differences compared with the control.

2:52.8

And the control group are not significant. Wow. Okay New York Times got it. So this is exactly what I was saying at the top of the show right I somewhere in a conclusion somewhere they cherry picks some spot when you look at the study itself.

3:05.7

It's saying no it didn't see that pumped that into an AI then ask the AI do mask stop the flu and the computer says no. Yes. No there's lots of these studies in here.

3:19.2

Literally done by the CDC that are saying no it doesn't do anything. It's it's it's really amazing. Do you think they I mean when you think about this Jeffrey is this reporter read that study or they literally just read the headlines zipping through and saying that must be you know I Michelle well

3:37.5

you want to ask you once mentioned this must be a great study I'm just going to put the headline and it's just amazing that they would make that mistake. Well we've reported on other outlets Washington Post Sacramento be purposely making mistakes purposely making errors to support a preconceived conclusion that they want to put forth in the article so hard to know what's in this author's mindset but really I mean if it's if it's not purposeful it's a basic mistake really it's really interesting but you're seeing the same

4:06.5

effort in the UK as well so it's going you know the United States in Europe you're saying seeing the same headlines and in the UK they're having a strap a outbreak. So you're getting headlines like this in the UK piggybacking on that schools should be bringing in pandemic measures to protect children from strap a and it says in here can we not learn from the pandemic surely the best way to avoid unnecessary harm is to set a new normal they're talking about face masks they're talking about ventilation systems.

4:34.5

And well what did we learn from the pandemic well when it comes to masking children this is a headline this is actually a study was the new England Journal of medicine and they looked at Sweden Sweden did not mask the kids and they kept their their early education schools open and here's the headline open schools COVID-19 and child teacher more morbidity and Sweden and it says here despite Sweden having kept schools and preschools open we found a low incidences of severe COVID-19 among school children and children preschool age during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

5:03.5

And so there's a study but if you go into the literature into the media and Sweden you're seeing articles that look like this they're actually they're in horror what the rest of the world did imagine if our children had it like this.

5:15.5

And they show a picture of a kid with a this is the head picture on this article and they're basically saying you know Germany locked down they mask the kids and they had they had higher incidences and they also have all the harms that came with that when it comes the education loss.

5:30.5

The verbal communication the connection with these kids so this is this is the headlines it's basically a gas from Sweden saying imagine if our kids had to go through that oh my god.

5:42.5

So I can't help but think you know over the years you know as we've all been traveling in you know airplanes here and there and buses you know when there would be people from another country here wearing masks everywhere they go when they're sort of standing out and I don't know about you but I was just saying God that's really unfortunate.

5:59.5

Their government or somehow they're oppressed level believing that the air they're breathing is dangerous to them.

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