More disproven BS from the CDC this week — will these lies never end?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

06 November 2021

 

 

Lying, Rochelle?

 

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tweeted this yesterday:

 

 

Masks can help reduce your chance of #COVID19 infection by more than 80%.

 

 

Ya don't say?

 

The best-conducted and massive mask study to date, from Bangladesh, clearly indicates that cloth masks make no difference — statistically speaking, despite how the study's authors tried to optimistically word their finding — in SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

 

Even surgical masks reduced transmittal of the virus by only 11 percent:

 

 

We conducted a cluster-randomized trial to measure the effect of community level mask distribution and promotion on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in rural Bangladesh from November 2020 to April 2021 (N = 600 villages, N = 342,183 adults).

 

We cross-randomized mask type (cloth vs. surgical) and promotion strategies at the village and household level.

 

Proper mask-wearing increased from 13.3% in the control group to 42.3% in the intervention arm . . . . The intervention reduced symptomatic seroprevalence . . . especially among adults 60+ years in villages where surgical masks were distributed . . . .

 

We find clear evidence that surgical masks lead to a relative reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence of 11.1% . . . .

 

Although the point estimates for cloth masks suggests that they reduce risk, the confidence limits include both an effect size similar to surgical masks and no effect at all . . . .

 

© 2021 Jason Abaluck, Laura H Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque, Alamgir Kabir, Ellen Bates-Jefferys, Emily Crawford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Shabib Raihan, Shadman Rahman, Salim Benhachmi, Neeti Zaman, Peter J. Winch, Maqsud Hossain, Hasan Mahmud Reza, Abdullah All Jaber, Shawkee Gulshan Momen, Aura Rahman, Faika Laz Banti, Tahrima Saiha Huq, Meerjady, Sabrina Flora, Stephen P. Luby and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh, Innovations for Poverty Action (03 November 2021) (at pages 2 and 10)

 

 

Anyone familiar with COVID mask studies to date . . .

 

. . . can reasonably conclude that the CDC Director's unsubstantiated 80 percent drivel came directly from her out-gassing behind. There is no scientific support, anywhere, for Dr. Walensky's blatantly ridiculous statement.

 

I am taken aback that someone with the Director's admirable credentials would skewer herself on Falsity's Lance.

 

This COVID thing has made sweeping masses of power-hungry (or avaricious) people completely nuts.

 

 

The moral? — Do you wonder why American public health agencies have no credibility left?

 

Lies, deception and inbreeding with Big Pharma have polluted them beyond foreseeable recovery.