@sassenach1 wrote:
@Annabellethecat66
There are many, many people in the medical community speaking out against lockdown and masks. You have to dig to find about it, but it’s there.
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Well there were doctors in the beginning saying the coronavirus would not pose a risk to that many Americans and it was a pandemic only to drive up media ratings.
The vast majority of public health mds and infectious disease docs overwhelmingly support the use of masks and a bulk of medical research that supports that masks help reduce transmission of the virus.
There will always be doctors that are snake oil salesmen. There were doctors operating in opioid pill set ups as well. Doesn't mean just because the initials md behind someone's name means they know what they are talking about or that they should be trusted.
Add to that a growing body of misinformation about mask wearing and you have a public that decides what they think based on misinformation. Especially since the lay public generally does not understand how to read and interpret medical research.
Case in point, the latest thing circulating around are headlines carried first in a particular publication that has been anti-anything virus that the CDC has research that shows that 71% of people that contracted covid-19 were wearing masks.
However, when one actually reads the report submitted to the MMWR for the CDC, that is not what it said at all. Here is the actual report. I would challenge anyone to actually read it and find where it shows any evidence that 71% of people that contracted covid-19 were wearing masks all the time.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf
If one actually reads the study they separate groups out (case patients and control participants) with the most interesting information that the biggest percentage of people that contracted covid-19 that had not had a close encounter with an infected individual, the biggest majority reported eating at a restaurant or being in a coffee shop/bar.
Obviously, one does not have a mask on at all times while in those types of establishments. The study goes on to state: "case-patients were less
likely to report observing almost all patrons at the restaurant
adhering to recommendations such as wearing a mask or social
distancing (p = 0.03 and p = 0.01, respectively)".
That means of the individuals that tested positive and had not had another exposure these individuals all had in common they had been in some type of a restaurant in which they did not necessarily report customers adhering to guidelines while in the eating establishments. And they would have had to have their masks down at times to eat and/or drink.
You see in the discussion there is one sentence which reads " In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public.".
However, when you start to go further into the study, one discovers there are degrees of adherence that case patients report as to how diligent they were in following guidelines. Interesting data there. But many reported eating out or having contact with family members that ended up being positive. And the family contact was inside, therefore it doesn't fall in the category of always using a cloth face covering or other mask type when out in public.
So there is no way that one can read that study and say the CDC has research that says 71% of people that contracted covid were wearing masks. But let some non-medical person write the article to support anti-mask groups and non-medical people that don't actually read the research or understand how to interpret medical research and you have a talking point that is absolutely inaccurate.
And it misses the very important point of this particular study that does provide some evidence that eating out in an environment where people don't have masks or family gatherings inside in which people aren't wearing masks appears to be significant factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
In the meantime, the people that read the headlines and believe it will never be convinced that they were led astray.
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