Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

The fact remains that what Rich said is fact.....seems you want to ignore that and instead attack the messenger ie the usual fare here

Originally Posted by James Brown

I'm sure the callers will be all over it!  I imagine something like this:  'This country is doomed.  They jailed that heroic patriot simply for owning guns - I told you the Feds are coming for your guns and coming for my guns too!  They'll get mine when they pry them from my cold dead fingers...'

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

There have been studies that showed that not only did the mask mandate do nothing to curb the spread of the virus, but that cloth masks really don't offer any protection whatsoever.  

There have been numerous studies of course on the subject;

https://thehayride.com/2021/05/new-study-shows-mask-mandates-didnt-work/

Here is another:

https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy

Here's another study coming out of Denmark, saying masks do nothing and don't work:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-

Here is the Randomized, Controlled study by Danish Scientists who took 6000 people and tested them.  Their conclusion?  No difference in Non-mask wearers and mask wearers:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-

From the study article:  

"Around half of those in the trial received 50 disposable surgical face masks, which they were told to change after eight hours of use. After one month, the trial participants were tested using both PCR, antibody and lateral flow tests and compared with the trial participants who did not wear a mask.

In the end, there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19. 1.8 per cent of those wearing masks caught Covid, compared to 2.1 per cent of the control group. As a result, it seems that any effect masks have on preventing the spread of the disease in the community is small".

You're free though to argue with the experts.

Now let me just point out that I offered up evidence to support my statement .  You on the other hand have offered up nothing but your mouth.

Is there anything else I can correct you on, or educate you on today? 

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-

So apparently you don't read either, you just attack the links, having no idea about the links?

Wow, now that is some REALLY amazing logic.  Attack the message and the messenger.

I suppose I can educate you now, the way I educated your 2 buddies here:

A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.


There, did you learn anything?