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Remember: in 2020 the CDC, the National Institutes of Health and Infectious Diseases, and the WHO, all quoted the science: masking is not necessary, because it doesn’t help stop transmission. They all, those very same organisations, reversed themselves in 2021, on the basis no new accepted science. The accepted science being: the largest review of RCT evidence, the Cochrane study earlier this year, a meta analysis of 17 Random Controlled Trials, which found no significant positive effect of masking at a population level. That remains the case.
I’ll bet not a one of the 72% pro-maskers among the 611 interviewees will have read the literature. They all wore masks for two years because the government told them to wear masks. And told them that they worked. And they believed the government. They accepted that they worked. With no evidence provided by the government. (I know this specifically because I followed the issue closely).
As for “vaccine hesitancy”, well there’s the fact that we now know Covid vaccines don’t stop transmission and only, arguably, reduce the severity, of an already much less serious disease than it was three years ago. Some folks just can’t let Covid go.
I’m startled and disappointed that a School of Public Health and Primary Care thinks it’s valid to quote Vox Pop, the views of random public, essentially with no comment by the School, supposedly the experts here. We’re supposed to make policy by what the crowd thinks, now? It’s policy by mob rule, now?
