Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian July 27, 2023
Last week it was reported that the Australian state of Victoria may be considering “permanent” facemask mandates to achieve “zero-Covid”.
Now, we don’t need to get into the personal liberty implications of such a law, or the near-infinite supply of evidence that masks don’t work to prevent the transmission of respiratory disease.
They don’t work, they never worked. Mandating them was a political move designed to make the fake Covid “pandemic” appear real, and their continued use is a symptom of brainwashing or a by-product of chronic virtue signaling.
The mask debate, such as it was, is over.
No, the only aspect of this development worth talking about is the “evidence” used to support the position – and trust me, the quotes are entirely justified.
The “study” which claims to demonstrate the benefits of permanent masking was published in the Medical Journal of Australia last week and titled “Consistent mask use and SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemiology: a simulation modelling study”.
“Simulation modelling study” is very much the key phrase there. For those who don’t know, “simulation modelling studies” involve feeding data into a computer programme, then asking it to form conclusions.
Clearly, they are only as reliable and useful as the data you use. In fact, you can very easily make them produce any result you want by feeding in the “right” (bad) data.
In this particular modelling study they started out by telling the computer that cloth masks reduce transmission by 53% and respirators reduced it by 80%:
Odds ratios for the relative risk of infection for people exposed to an infected person (wearing a mask v not wearing a mask) were set at 0.47 for cloth and surgical masks and 0.20 for respirators
Essentially, they told their computer that masks prevent disease…and then said “ok, computer, since you now know masks prevent disease – what would happen if everybody wore them all the time?”
The computer then told them – obviously – that nobody would get sick.
Because they made it logically impossible for it to say anything else.
But there’s a bit more to it.
The next layer of interest is where they got their input data from.
After all there have been dozens of studies done on masks over the years, 98% of which say masks don’t work.
So, did our guys they choose a peer-reviewed real-time control trial relying on lab-tested double-blind results?
Perhaps one of the dozen or so such trials listed in our 40 facts article?
Did they maybe average the results of multiple studies?
No, they used a phone survey.
One phone survey.
This phone survey, published last year and conducted in late 2021.
In this *ahem* “scientific study”, they had people randomly call up those who had recently been tested for “Covid”, ask them “did you wear a mask?” and then published the conclusion – “masks reduce transmission by 53%” – as if they meant something.
Interestingly, if you scroll down to the “affiliations” section you can see that one of the authors is a Pfizer grant recipient.
Rather more troublingly – and for some reason not mentioned as a conflict of interest – is that the whole study was produced by the California Board of Public Health.
California had already had a mask mandate in place for almost a year before this “study” was even started.
What we have here is not “science” it’s a computer model based on the results of a subjective phone survey conducted by a government agency with a vested interest. It is entirely meaningless, and yet is published in journals and cited by “experts”, perhaps even used as the basis of introducing new laws.
This is how “The ScienceTM” works. And, although Covid has maybe opened many people’s eyes to this issue, it is far from unique to “Covid”. You are just as likely to find this kind of “research” published on any topic – especially those that serve a political purpose – and have been for years if not decades.
Stanford Professor of evidence-based medicine, John Ioannidis wrote a paper called “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, and that was back in 2005.
This has nothing to do with the “pandemic”, and everything to do with the difference between science and “The Science”. So let’s examine that distinction.
“Science” is an approach to the world. A rational method for gathering information, testing new ideas and forming evidence-based conclusions.
“The Science” is a self-sustaining industry of academics who need jobs and owe favours.
An ongoing quid pro quo relationship between the researchers – who want honors and knighthoods and tenure and book deals and research grants and to be the popular talking head explaining complex ideas to the multitudes on television – and the corporations, governments and “charitable foundations” who have all of those things in their gift.
This system doesn’t produce research intended to be read, it creates headlines for celebrities to tweet, links for “journalists” to embed, sources for other researchers to cite.
An illusion of solid substantiation that comes apart the moment you actually read the words, examine the methodology or analyse the data.
Self-reporting surveys, manipulated data, “modelling studies” that spit-out pre-ordained results. Affiliated-authors paid by the state or corporate interests to provide “evidence” that supports highly profitable or politically convenient assumptions.
This mask study is the perfect example of that.
Interlacing layers of nothing designed to create the impression of something.
That’s why they want you to trust it, rather than read it.
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Jabs, masks and lock-downs, because you are a dangerous animal and the Jew is scared of you
Andrews the premier of Victoria is a MARRANO….also known as a crypto jew.
Fact!.
The Australian Prime Minister is also aCatholic Marrano of Italian Jewish background ….Italy appears to have more than its fair share of Crypto jews…..probably including the Pope-stein
The Australian PM is finding its way around anti immigrant sentiment in Australia……Thanks to the crypto jewess Jacinda Ardern,former employee of the TREACHEROUS BLAIR….NZ has been swamped with third world immigrants…..widespread opposition to this IS NEVER MENTIONED BY THE JEWISH CONTROLLED MEDIA……
So NZers have virtually NO control over immigration policy (like Americans)
So the crypto jew PM of Australia has instituted an new policy.NZers will no longer require a passport to travel to Australia……therefore it will be possible for the third world to enter Australia without a passport…..many scams will be able to be employed by illegal migrants….So the crypto jewish elites of Australia will circumvent Australian widespread opposition to it……..
Australian and NZers should look at what is happening to Britain where the number of illegal immigrants which have entered Britain is VASTLY UNDERSTATED.
THERE ARE NO CONTROLS IN OPERATION…..BUT THERE IS A VAST AVALANCHE OF DISINFORMATION FROM THE MEDIA.(Don’t spare the media when the insurrection begins)
Slaves wear masks.. to dehumanize the slave class and break down positive social interaction..
..it’s also an evident reminder that you are a slave..and enables the totalitarian security state to create meaningless legislative legalese to identify non compliant individuals..
and take them away in the middle of the night.. and murder them..
the ‘Scientism’ says so…ask Lysenko …
There is no Covid 19, stop perpetuating the lie.
Australia is one of the trees that bear foul fruit from the Five Eyes tap-root of the CIA; evil insanity rendered reasonably credible through the dollar-denominated threat of death.
“Do the RIGHT thing: Trust the pro-mask Science Experts on the BBC. Save Granny👍”
– TB 🤓
GRAPHENOXID INHALATION !
Good piece, except for the maddening plethora of one sentence “paragraphs”.
Citizen punching bags in Vitoria Lostralia continue to be force-fed steaming bullshit thanks to the Herald Sun publishing absurd and insulting propaganda such as “Radical Way to Reduce Covid Deaths”. Reduce covid deaths, eh? What, from 2 in a million to 1 in a million? More people die from pianos falling on their heads while walking down the street than from covid. So perhaps they plan to “reduce covid deaths” by reversing the effects of horribly old age or by eliminating all the other actual underlying causes of death of the poor slobs who were listed as victims of “covid”.
I’d bet my inheritance more people have died from effects of strapping diapers to their dumb-f*ck faces than directly and primarily from covid. Many of us here knew right away early in the vicious assault upon humanity by the ruling class that has been the covid-1984 plandemic that face diapers mandates were nothing but a robust “Fuck YOU, Slave!” directed toward us that had nothing to do with public health, quite the opposite actually. Their satanic idea all along has been to make us sicker; physically, psychologically, and morally.
Let’s be clear and honest here and accept that any “covid” deaths now are among those who were dangerously stupid enough to have gotten injected with the toxic vaxxxecution sludge. The only way to reduce that, it would seem, would be to have all the poisoned pin cushions go back in a time machine, because they obtained a discount irreversible ticket to Destination Fucked the second that needle penetrated them.
Here are a couple other radical ways to “reduce covid deaths” for those who didn’t get Satan’s piss injected into them: chicken soup, ivermectin, some fresh air NOT filtered through a diaper, and some sunlight. Radical as hell, I know, but crazy enough to work.
Dictator Dan is what we call the premier of Victoria here in JewAlia. He has the record for the longest lockdown in Earth’s history. He increased Victoria’s debt to 150billion during covid so much so he had to raise taxes to help pay it off. He just cancelled the Commonwealth Games because he said they couldn’t afford it.
But the Victorians will vote him in again because he leads the LGBT parades.
Jews overdid it this time. Now, whole nations that never thought about this stuff realize how much jews hate them and now will do anything they can to stop them. Jews will burn the world down before they allow themselves to be caught. It won’t work.