NEW 610K PERSON STUDY PROVES SISOLAK MASK MANDATE FAILED

February 15, 2023

Rob Lauer Political Reporter

February 10, 2022, The New York Times story titled “Nevada Abruptly Drops Its Statewide Mask Mandate” marked the end of Sisolak’s mask mandate and the end of his political career. At the time, Sisolak said that decreasing case numbers and hospitalizations had convinced him it was the right time. But Sisolak never qualified that statement with exact numbers. Prior to that, when Sisolak was asked what numbers would determine when he would end his mask mandate, he ran out of the press conference.

Worse, millions of people were misled into believing masks would protect them from a level 3 bio-virus when the government knew masks wouldn’t.

Now we know why. A new meta-analysis published by the Cochrane Library and led by 12 researchers found that the difference between wearing a regular surgical mask or not wearing one at all “may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness.” It also “probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test.”

In March 2020, at the outset of the CV19 pandemic, the CDC said that masks were non-essential in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. A month later, CDC director Robert Redfield issued a statement that masks were one of “the most important” and “powerful” health tools Americans had at their disposal. Now we know they lied to the public and had no evidence to show masks did anything to stop the spread.

In addition, its now proven by Musk’s recently published documents from Twitter that the CDC worked with social media companies to censor any medial evidence to the contrary.

From the Study

Main results

We included 11 new RCTs and cluster‐RCTs (610,872 participants) in this update, bringing the total number of RCTs to 78. Six of the new trials were conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic; two from Mexico, and one each from Denmark, Bangladesh, England, and Norway. We identified four ongoing studies, of which one is completed, but unreported, evaluating masks concurrent with the COVID‐19 pandemic.

Many studies were conducted during non‐epidemic influenza periods. Several were conducted during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and others in epidemic influenza seasons up to 2016. Therefore, many studies were conducted in the context of lower respiratory viral circulation and transmission compared to COVID‐19. The included studies were conducted in heterogeneous settings, ranging from suburban schools to hospital wards in high‐income countries; crowded inner city settings in low‐income countries; and an immigrant neighbourhood in a high‐income country. Adherence with interventions was low in many studies.

The risk of bias for the RCTs and cluster‐RCTs was mostly high or unclear.

Medical/surgical masks compared to no masks

We included 12 trials (10 cluster‐RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community). Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence).