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Update: Why Face Masks Don’t Work (2016)

• tannerbrockwell 6y ago
  "The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection. Unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, national and provincial dental associations and regulatory agencies publically admit this fact, they will be guilty of perpetuating a myth which will be a disservice to the dental profession and its patients." Archived snapshot: https://archive.is/6bE19 https://archive.is/6bE19
  • foolzcrow 6y ago
    Thank you for being honest. Even the much touted N95 mask can only protect against particles 3.0 microns or larger. Corona viruses are 0.080 - 0.125 microns. Ie 25 - 40 smaller than N95 can filter. That's comperable to stopping flies with a chain link fence. Science be damned. Obey Obey Obey.
• stevenalowe 6y ago
  Irrelevant article from 2016
  • jjgreen 6y ago
    Indeed it is, the point being that the mask hysteria has reached such a level that irrelevant articles must be suppressed for the sake of it. What was unscientific has become anti-scientific.
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• gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
  > Yesterday’s Scientific Dogma is Today’s Discarded Fable The longer I live, the more this becomes apparent. Makes me think of perennial wisdom warning against hubris (of which the credentialed and political seem to be full of).
• jjgreen 6y ago
  Aside, the (2016) tag added here is incorrect; the original article was from 2016, the suppression of it (which is the story) is from a few days ago.