Seriously.As if someone wearing a mask halfway through 2026 has IQ points left to lose.But that continued dedication to masking of any kind is not merely the result of unintelligence, or misplaced hypochondria, or even being affiliated with a specific political party.
Though, of course, all of that doesn’t hurt..It’s a result of the concerted effort to promote masks, courtesy of the media, politicians and most importantly, research either conducted or promulgated by the CDC.RFK JR.DEFENDS FIRING SPREE AT CDC, VOWS ‘NEW BLOOD’ AT AGENCYAnd we have some data on just how damaging that practice actually was.Three researchers, two of whom have since gone on to bigger and better successes, Vinay Prasad and Tracey Beth Hoeg, explained in detail how committed the CDC was to promoting masks.CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee about the COVID-19 response in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov.
4, 2021.Earlier that week, Walensky approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Their study titled, "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Characteristics and quality of all studies from 1978 to 2023," looked at the CDC’s weekly publication over 45 years, and how it covered the data and evidence on this topic.And in case there were any remaining doubts that masks never had the slightest chance of stopping respiratory viruses, of the studies that met their inclusion criteria, all of them came after 2019.Not one was published prior to 2019."77 studies, all published after 2019, met our inclusion criteria," they write.
"75/77 (97.4%) studies were from the United States alone.All geographic regions and age groups were represented."Here’s another remarkable fact that they discovered.
Nearly 30% of the studies covered in their reference set did not have a ...