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Smh. The article cites facts. Enough bunk arguments.

Dude, if it's opinion based on fact then it's also fact. But i guess we're just too entrenched in the lies we were told to believe in order to see this. I'm wasting my time here, I know. But i enjoy pointing out massive scale fallacy.

The doctor cited the largest study available on the subject. As cited, Cloth masks are useless. Surgical masks reduced spread among those over 50. By 11%. Under 50 they were found to present no benefit. Bangladesh, home of the study in question, then installed no enforced mask mandate. Why enforce it when it presents little to no benefit? Why force it on the whole public when certainly the whole public didn't need it? We have been haunting the populace over it for no viable reason, and have been instructed to tell ourselves and others lies about it or face penalties. In the name of 'science'. Which is as we fully know is a fn crock. It's not good.

Other people in the thread have managed to read what was referred to. Pls. also read, then comment?

Read the article yet?

Years-old data stated cloth masks were akin to an empty net. Not good. Esp. when people were prompted to bicker and fight over such uselessness for these years.

Yuh. It's what this comment chain was referring to.

I think the Bangladesh case made it simple. It should have been an individual policy. For surgical masks or n95s. Instead cloth masks were pushed. But they were useless. So the public was spreading it as if they were maskless. We were being agitated about useless policy for years and then it was kept far too long even after omicron made it even more useless. So wtf? At least our media is starting to out this.

But the data is 2yrs old.

Smh. As the article and data stated, age was the determining factor. They presented no benefit for anyone under 50. And for those over 50, cloth masks were useless and surgical masks reduced spread by 11% Ooooh. That's worth a mandate. A mandate that yup, allowed totally useless cloth masks. But more importantly the study was conducted well before omicron spread throughout the world. It was astounding that we kept the mandates as long as we did considering the long proven data. It should have been put on individuals long ago. The doctor's conclusions are sound. Wear a mask in high risk settings or if you feel like they help. Like in the hospital. If you feel particularly sick then stay home. The nanny state apparatus that failed us anyway wasn't needed. Probably not ever considering the data. Ps. Bangladesh never installed an enforced mask use policy. Prob. because they knew it wasn't worth the bother.

Esp. the politicians not wearing them unless it was for a photo op.

First, Did you even read the article?

Uh huh. We also forgot that when literally fighting about it in public.

Tell that to the doctor citing the proven data i guess.

Social distancing. Being scared of human contact. Etc. But omicron has spread around the world regardless now. So masking really is useless. That's why we ditched that mandate. And as cited, they weren't ever all that effective anyway. People are just pretending otherwise.

Reduces, yes. Still spreads regardless, also yes. The idiocy may have been in believing that masks were a solve all. Nope. Not even close And to think the public has been physically fighting over it for years. What a joke.

The effectiveness of ill-fitted cloth masks was always minimal. This much is proven and well-known at the outset. N95's would have been better. But cost. We were just told what fits what we were able to do.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-strauss-im-a-doctor-heres-why-im-done-with-masking Starting to get some reality about ineffective policy to be broadcast now.

Looks like China's still running with the futility of their zero covid policy even though it's impossible, and worse, detrimental given omicron reality. https://www.msn.com/en-in/video/watch/china-highest-daily-covid-19-cases-in-2-years-as-omicron-fuels-the-surge/vi-AAUZ7cY I guess they'll continue this foolish errand until all their resources are exhausted? Or until their people will wake up and start rejecting this idea. Hey maybe democracy will arrive there sooner rather than later. Yay.

Correct. You'll find that all of our provinces based omicron policy on that. Whoops.

Speaking of which, where's the data indicating they worked to slow down omicron in particular? Oh right. There is none. Just obsolete data about different, non respiratory, non airborne variants. Hey maybe that's why omicron spread a lot easier? But you go ahead and ask for data on that. (You might be disappointed.)

Going to take a bit to reverse how weird some people have gotten in public. But you can see how relieved most have gotten after their useless masks were shedded. Sorry, not useless. Just apparently 'slowed down' omicron. Sure.

It's about time they woke up.

Mandates clearly don't work. But yuh let's keep em. Good luck convincing the public on this nonsense.

Every at risk person has come to this point by now. My elderly relatives can't be cooped up in a perpetual state of fear. They won't be. It's not sustainable. It's not living. The idea that these folks are somehow selfish is just as ridiculous as thinking the mandates are still needed. I mean, we're all on the same page here, but tick tock... Time to call it already.