Ep. 1756 The COVID Mask Controversy

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Masks have become central to the response to COVID-19, and a great deal of acrimony has developed between people who favor and oppose masks. After the New England Journal of Medicine argued that their effectiveness was minimal, a great deal of controversy emerged regarding what "the science" truly had to say on the subject. Hence this episode.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1756.
0:03.7	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.2	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.8	The Tom Woods Show.
0:14.8	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:16.3	We're talking about masks today.
0:18.7	I hadn't really taken this on up to now,
0:21.4	but it's just everywhere in conversation and in the news.
0:26.4	Masks just can't be avoided ultimately.
0:29.7	And I wanted to try to find what has been written on it.
0:33.8	And it's actually surprisingly little in terms of actual real life scientific studies.
0:39.9	Not conjecture, not assuming what's to be proven,
0:44.0	and then building a model around that,
0:46.1	not assuming the effectiveness of masks,
0:48.7	and then running some math and saying if we wore them, it would do X and Y.
0:52.3	That's really not that valuable.
0:54.0	I want to really, really get to the bottom of it.
0:56.9	And there's not a whole lot out there.
0:59.4	And then I was talking to Greg Moran,
1:01.8	whom I've known for a long time.
1:04.4	And it turns out he had actually gone through and just scoured the literature on this
1:09.4	and written a pretty meaty post about it.
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