{"id":209228,"date":"2020-06-24T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209228"},"modified":"2020-06-26T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:15:58","slug":"masks-dont-work-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covid-19-social-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209228","title":{"rendered":"Masks Don\u2019t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Denis G. Rancourt Ph.D. \u2013 River City Reader June 11, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_209230\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masks-and-respirators-do-no-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209230\" class=\"wp-image-209230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masks-and-respirators-do-no-work.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masks-and-respirators-do-no-work.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masks-and-respirators-do-no-work-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masks and respirators do not work. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (&lt; 2.5 \u03bcm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Review of the Medical Literature<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Here are key anchor points to the extensive scientific literature that establishes that wearing surgical masks and respirators (e.g., \u201cN95\u201d) does not reduce the risk of contracting a verified illness:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcreader.com\/commentary\/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key points from scientific studies that show that masks and respirators DO NOT prevent the spread of respiratory influenza-like illnesses, such as Covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209231,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209228\/revisions\/209231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}