Masks forever? Feds, medical world double down on mandates despite evidence they don’t work

Just the News ^ | Updated: February 25, 2023 - 7:12am | Greg Piper

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Decades of research finding that face masks provide little to no real-world benefit against respiratory viruses, recently reaffirmed by a "gold standard" Cochrane meta-review of randomized controlled trials, aren't budging the faith of federal regulators and the U.S. medical establishment.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration could impose some form of mask mandate in healthcare settings permanently, assuming the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs approves its final rule submitted in December.

The public can't review the submission because "internal deliberations are ongoing, and it has not yet been finalized," an OSHA spokesperson told Just the News. Stakeholders seem to believe it will mandate masking, judging by the pro-mandate National Nurses United cheering the agency's submission.

Andrew Levinson, director of standards and guidance at the Labor Department, pointed Just the News to the public record for OSHA's emergency temporary standard, which required masks indoors and high-grade respirators around suspected or confirmed COVID cases. 

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently told Congress not only that the agency didn't study mask efficacy against COVID because there was no "equipoise in the question," meaning everyone knew masks worked, but also that its recommendation to mask even 2-year-olds in areas with high COVID infections would not change in response to growing scientific doubt about masking's efficacy.

Walensky also questioned the validity of the Cochrane review in part because it was limited to RCTs, the strongest form of scientific evidence. The CDC has often seized on non-RCTs, some published in its own non-peer-reviewed journal, to justify its COVID recommendations.

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Simon says wear your mask!

[EvilCapitalist]

The Feds, and medical world can take those masks and shove them up their....

[Rurudyne]

Red Rover, Red Rover wear your mask or you’re over!

[joma89]

The idiots are clearly in charge.

[Rurudyne]

“CDC announces Anus Plugs to prevent communicating disease through farts.”

[alstewartfan]

The Communist Feds FORCE the medical facilities to comply, by threatening to withhold Medicare and Medicaid money.

[gundog]

The public can't review the submission because...

[Paladin2]

Where is Che when you need him?

[Cobra64]

It’s conditioning and control. Those who obeyed and wore the masks are part of the experiment.

[lightman]

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

Wear a Mask if You Wanna

[sauropod]

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[stars & stripes forever]

I see discarded masks tossed in parking lots, along the road, on sidewalks...

They are an environmental hazard.

[lightman]

If they are as effective as some believe they should be treated as bio-hazmat and deposited in red containers.

But they aren’t.

What does that mean?

[lightman]

Accept Federal funding, accept Federal control.

A great extortion racket for the Swampcritters.

[wjcsux]

Thanks for posting that link, great video!

[alstewartfan]

Honestly, all medical facilities would collapse *at this time* if the guvmint turned off the spigot. The genie can never return to the bottle.

[Antoninus]

Anyone who thought government-controlled medicine is a good thing...here’s your result.

[lightman]

Yup...get a mask imprinted with:

“I love Single Payer”

or

“I love Big Government”

[the OlLine Rebel]

I have long bought my own with MAGA, “appeasing the sheep”, “government-mandated muzzle”, and “practice socialist distancing”.

[lightman]

+1

My fave (still in the car “just in case”):

F U Wuhan