I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell...

 

You've been proven wrong time and time again on pretty much *every* science-based point of concern about covid (and science in general).

Ignoring the discussion of lab escape vs zoonotic vectors since ee has already proven how wrong you are, I'll instead focus on another of your insipid claims. Masks.

Time and again you've parroted the MSM without ever bothering to read *and understand* scientific literature.

Masks don't prevent respiratory viruses unless it's an N95 or a full hood positive pressure regulator.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

The juicy parts in there that you'll continue to ignore or not understand:

"We performed meta-analysis for hand hygiene and face mask interventions and estimated the effect of these measures on laboratory-confirmed influenza prevention by risk ratios (RRs)."

"In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25) (Figure 2)."

"Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."

You'll claim that this study was on the flu instead of covid-19 so it doesn't apply, completely ignoring (or more likely not understanding) that the viruses are the same size (roughly) and are transmitted the same way. That's multiple studies over 70 years. I'll trust their conclusions over your squawking every day of the week.

Just admit you're a trainable. We won't think any less of you...

Even when presented with scientific evidence that they make no difference, you still can't unlock your brain from the MSM narrative.

From the CDC and last updated in May 2021.  www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fmore%2Fmasking-science-sars-cov2.html

"An investigation of a high-exposure event, in which 2 symptomatically ill hair stylists interacted for an average of 15 minutes with each of 139 clients during an 8-day period, found that none of the 67 clients who subsequently consented to an interview and testing developed infection. The stylists and all clients universally wore masks in the salon as required by local ordinance and company policy at the time."

None of the 67 who wore masks got the virus at a high exposure event.


"In a study of 124 Beijing households with > 1 laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, mask use by the index patient and family contacts before the index patient developed symptoms reduced secondary transmission within the households by 79%."

Mask wearing reduced transmission by 79%

"A retrospective case-control study from Thailand documented that, among more than 1,000 persons interviewed as part of contact tracing investigations, those who reported having always worn a mask during high-risk exposures experienced a greater than 70% reduced risk of acquiring infection compared with persons who did not wear masks under these circumstances."

Mask wear reduced transmission by 70%.

"A study of an outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an environment notable for congregate living quarters and close working environments, found that use of face coverings on-board was associated with a 70% reduced risk."

Another with a 70% reduction.

"At least ten studies have confirmed the benefit of universal masking in community level analyses: in a unified hospital system,42 a German city,43 two U.S. states,44, 45 a panel of 15 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.,46, 47 as well as both Canada48 and the U.S. 49-51 nationally. Each analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organizational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly. Two of these studies46, 47 and an additional analysis of data from 200 countries that included the U.S.51 also demonstrated reductions in mortality. Another 10-site study showed reductions in hospitalization growth rates following mask mandate implementation 49. A separate series of cross-sectional surveys in the U.S. suggested that a 10% increase in self-reported mask wearing tripled the likelihood of stopping community transmission.53 An economic analysis using U.S. data found that, given these effects, increasing universal masking by 15% could prevent the need for lockdowns and reduce associated losses of up to $1 trillion or about 5% of gross domestic product."

You are looking at the influenza article.  This is the Covid 19 article. What you are missing(deliberately or not) is that Covid is transmitted via water droplets that have the virus in them.  While the mask can't stop something as small as a virus, it can and does stop the water drops that COVID is using.

With respect, you're doing the exact same thing with your refusal to accept that it's reasonably possible for the virus to have come from the Wuhan research facility.  You've got your head buried in the sand right next to his.

Water droplets are how both viruses are spread... Unless covid isn't "airborne" like rhinoviruses and flu due to sneezes and coughs and is actually airborne like measles where cloth and surgical masks are even more worthless.

I'll note that the article you cite discussed investigations that are not double-blind studies of the type referenced by the CDC article I cited (the studies were done over the past 70 years). Furthermore, symptomatic individuals in close proximity to others in closed spaces are not the same as universal masking indoors amongst people with no symptoms. Different dynamics at play.

Simple question:

"Experts" have claimed that masking is the reason why there were hardly any flu cases this season. If that is the case, then why didn't covid infections also precipitously nose-dive also?

The answer is one of a few possibilities. "But muh masks!!" Isn't one of them.

Either covid is really airborne like measles, or it just happened to out-compete the flu this season. BTW, do you know what virus currently is most prevalent right now? I'll give you a hint. It's rhinovirus, followed by parainfluenza 3. Rhinovirus is outcompeting covid right now. Guess what rhinoviruses do re: covid?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083659/

Here's the link to the full article: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083659/pdf/jiab147.pdf

It's this blind belief in masks as a panacea without thinking through the specific situations where masks work, where the don't work, and where the data shows that they make no significant difference, based upon the details behind the studies (and that *most* situations involving the public don't fit into a situation where a mask would make a difference) that illustrate why kirinke lacks the ability for abstract thought. It's that same lack of capacity for abstract thought at play here where it's *possible* that covid started in a lab just as it is *possible* to be a zoonotic jump.