The Danish study on face masks has been published. The outcome is no great surprise.
The team recruited more than 6,000 adults and split them into two groups: one wearing surgical masks in public coverings and one control group that did not.
Results showed that, after one month, 1.8 percent of the people wearing masks had been infected with the virus.
By comparison, 2.1 percent of the people in the unmasked group had tested positive for COVID-19.
The difference between the two groups not statistically significant.
So, as expected then. Of course the claim is still being made that it will prevent you passing it on to others. However, if you don’t have it, then you won’t anyway.
Yet another wasted effort of government thinking ‘We must do something! This is something, so let’s do it!’…
I went around some shops in Beverley yesterday and nearly all of them were open. Maybe I’m not keeping up with the ever changing government edicts, but I thought that there was some kind of second lockdown going on. Is everyone just ignoring it or is it just less restrictive this time around?
From what I’ve seen here in Perth (Scotland, not the hotter newer one) people are paying little more than lip service to the laws. The local pub has put up a sign saying they will reopen when we go back to Nanny Level 2 and not before. That’s about it really. Wee Jimmy Krankie keeps doing her shrill nanny act, but it becomes tiresome after nearly a year of her screeching.
Where did it get published? As far as I remember many many institutions were refusing to publish it…mainly because it went against groupthink.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817#f1-M206817
“The findings, however, should not be used to conclude that a recommendation for everyone to wear masks in the community would not be effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections, because the trial did not test the role of masks in source control of SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
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It means they didn’t test for transmission.
So if you have it, or have and don’t know you have it, there’s a possibility a mask might stop you giving it to someone else.
If you don’t have it, or do have it, wearing a mask won’t make any difference to your chances of getting it.
Easy then…
I hope everyone remembered to wish Covid a happy birthday on 17th November when the first case was identified.
Of course, you couldn’t have a birthday party because … reasons. Never mind. There is always next year, eh?
Just boarding a Qantas flight from COVID-19 free Mackay to Brisbane. Announcer: “we strongly recommend you wear a face mask,”
As far I’m concerned, the allowing of 50,000 people to attend the State of Origin third game at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday without social distancing or masks mean COVID-19 restrictions are over in Queensland, although it is still required to only have a maximum of 200 at a funeral.
The US may be in a mess at the moment but at least they have the NYPD.
“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued his edict that New Yorkers must not have more than 10 people as guests in their homes, and that our holiday celebrations must be curbed. But who does he think is really going to enforce it? Not the NYPD, that’s for sure.
“While we would like everyone to be mindful that we are in the midst of a second wave, we will not be enforcing the Governor’s order,” a source with the NYPD told The Post Millennial.”
Can you imagine any of our selectively zealous coppers saying something like that?
Good for them.