Three years ago when people were wearing magic charms face nappies, those of us who pointed out the insanity were accused of spreading misinformation or being conspiracy theorists, yet we knew than that we were right. Now it is finally being admitted.
There is no solid proof masks ever slowed the spread of Covid, England’s former deputy chief medical officer said today.
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, who now heads up the UK Health Security Agency, said the evidence that coverings reduced transmission is ‘uncertain’ because it is difficult to separate their effect from other Covid curbs.
She also told the UK’s Covid inquiry that government advice on how to make a mask using two pieces of cloth was ‘ineffective’.
Studies showed at least three were needed for even a small effect on the spread of viruses, Dame Jenny said.
Meanwhile, she warned advice for the public to wear masks during the pandemic may even have given people a ‘false sense of security’ that they could reduce their risk of becoming infected if they wore one while mixing with others.
Well, duh. Those of us who had a grain of intelligence and common sense were telling you this three years ago. So, yes, we told you so.
She told the inquiry: ‘The first question was, shouldn’t you be encouraging this? There’s no harm’.
‘The issue for me at that time, and I think Professor Van Tam shared it, was we definitely shouldn’t be supporting something which was not evidence-based if it was going to promote a risk compensation.
But you did it anyway.
Now, about resurrecting the Tyburn Tree…
1) Will there be any comeback for this omission?
2) The point was to signal compliance of the masses wasn’t it? Like happy clapping like a moron for the brave NHS.
Correction:
1) Will there be any comeback for this admission?
I didn’t wear a mask, I didn’t clap, I didn’t do the stupid bubbles or tiers bullshit. I ignored the one way systems in the supermarket and I didn’t socially distance. I was right. I knew I was right. Fuck them all to hell and back.
And the evidence that the masks emitted cancer causing particles and reduced breathing efficiency resulting in cognitive problems?
I too refused to mask up on a visit to the UK during Covid. I did wear one for about 2 hours once, and was sweating like a pig, couldn’t breathe properly, couldn’t communicate properly and the mask stank vile after an hour. Bin.
Any hassle I got was simply 7gnored. Those who persistently hassling were roundly told to fuck off.
Did anyone say there was?
Just to clarify, that question was for Doomhammer.
“She told the inquiry: ‘The first question was, shouldn’t you be encouraging this? There’s no harm’.”
Well, next time there is an OhMiGodWeAreAllGonnaDIE!!!!!! pandemic, you could paint your backside blue. There’s no harm but it has to be at least three coats of paint, renewed every 4 hours. And the Police will be carrying Dulux colour charts and ordering you to drop your pants and bend over to make sure you are painting your arse the right colour.
If it saves one life …
It is about as sensible as wearing the face nappies and equally effective. You saw it here first.
And yet I still see idiots wandering my local supermarket wearing masks. Mostly elderly and a bit feeble but younger than me.How brainwashed can you be and still function ?
I still see one or two and, like you said, not always oldies but younger people two. They are a tiny minority though, I wondered if, with winter coming, that there might be a whole lot of them but so far it hasn’t happened.
I was in Boots, standing in line, wearing a mask and socially distancing like a good little drone. The man 6 feet away in front of me was a smoker. That’s when it became glaringly obvious how ineffective the masks were. If I could smell him through the mask from six feet away, what were the chances of it stopping a virus?