Most western countries and most international medical organizations, guided by the medical community, have recommended the use of masks.
And what censorship are you talking about? You can talk whatever you want everywhere.
Every social media site has an official policy that says that any discussion about COVID outside of the approved WHO/Gates narrative is not allowed, and you get banned for it. They publicly announced it and are proud of it, it's not a secret. Many doctors and other scientists have gotten banned for it. Obviously, the media is not bringing anyone on who doesn't to agree with the WHO/Gates narrative. So, in essence, they constructed a unanimity of opinion on this,
All these organizations, based on decades of research going back to the 1900s, also said that widespread mask usage was *not* needed in the beginning. Literally everybody was on the same page on this There was a massive about face all of the sudden, based on very little. So, think about that.
You use one example out of context, manipulate it and then try to hold "mask people" responsible for your own made up stats.
Again, sorry, but none of that matters.
There is no me putting anything "out of context."
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast.
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"If we could get everybody to wear a mask right now, I really think in the next four, six, eight weeks, we could bring this epidemic under control," the CDC director said.
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I can explain the problem, if they won't. It's the same problem that led to the disastrous lockdown policies, bad modeling. The bad modeling is that they vastly overstate the effectiveness of masks. They plug the numbers into their Excel sheet or R or MatLab model, come out, and then tell it to everyone. But instead of fixing their models, and coming up with new ideas on what to do, they just double down and blame people for getting an easily contracted illness.
Reality isn't a controlled lab.
There.
So, we need to focus on things that work in reality, not the lab.
There.
The truth is that it's scientifically proven that masks help to prevent the spread of the Covid. You even cite the study that reflects that the masks work much better in a controlled lab environment than in real life, but that means that they still work in real life, just not that at the same rate.
The evidence for masks and COVID is really scant, localized (e.g. this one article in the OP about one town in Germany, ignoring the thousands of other mask mandates that went into place followed by continued increases), limited, and betrayed by more comprehensive analyses, studies, and of course research history going back 100+ years. As I said before, maybe in April, it made sense to go with it, because why not, we have no other option here, but months on, it was just a waste of time yet people are so fixated on goddamn masks that they can't think of this virus in any but the most cartoonish and simplistic way - if you get sick, it's because you didn't mask hard enough.