{"id":9185,"date":"2023-11-28T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2023-11-28T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:14:47","slug":"mask-wearing-is-and-always-was-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/mask-wearing-is-and-always-was-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"MASK WEARING IS AND ALWAYS WAS A HOAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The peer-reviewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/0525AD535D10FDCDF0C52603B50E7A1E\/S0950268823001826a.pdf\/association-between-face-mask-use-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-cross-sectional-study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection on Nov. 13, analyzed mask use among 3,209 individuals from Norway. Researchers followed them for 17 days, and then asked the participants about their use of masks. The team found that there was a higher incidence of testing positive for COVID-19 among people who used masks more frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among individuals who \u201cnever or almost never\u201d wore masks, 8.6 percent tested positive. That rose to 15 percent among participants who \u201csometimes\u201d used masks, and to 15.1 percent among those who \u201calmost always or always\u201d wore them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjusting for factors such as vaccination status, the study determined that individuals who sometimes or often wore masks had a 33 percent higher incidence of COVID-19, compared to those who never or almost never wore masks. This jumped to 40 percent among people who almost always or always wore them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, adjusting for \u201cdifferences in baseline risk over time,\u201d the risk of wearing masks turned out to be \u201cless pronounced,\u201d with only a 4 percent higher incidence of infection among mask-wearers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe results contradict earlier randomized and non-randomized studies of the effectiveness of mask-wearing on the risk of infection,\u201d the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/0525AD535D10FDCDF0C52603B50E7A1E\/S0950268823001826a.pdf\/association-between-face-mask-use-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-cross-sectional-study.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/0525AD535D10FDCDF0C52603B50E7A1E\/S0950268823001826a.pdf\/association-between-face-mask-use-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-infection-cross-sectional-study.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peer-reviewed&nbsp;study, published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection on Nov. 13, analyzed mask use among 3,209 individuals from Norway. Researchers followed them for 17 days, and then asked the participants about their use of masks. The team found that there was a higher incidence of testing positive for COVID-19 among people who used masks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9187,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions\/9187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}