Masks *are* useless

I believed in them for a month, everyday use changed my mind

Masks in everyday use are definitely useless. In a normal everyday setting they get constantly adjusted, put in pockets, dropped accidentally & if you’re doing anything involving physical labour of any sort they get dirty very quickly. Of course before 2020 their use was confined to surgical environments. In surgeries they get changed very regularly, but those on the minimum wage cannot afford to do that.

But their efficacy in surgeries has also been challenged and before they were scrubbed from the internet, as free speech on COVID-19 is not exactly paramount, there were several papers which suggested that masks were also useless in a surgery setting. Here’s one that’s still available (maybe because it suggests doubling down instead of elimination of masks);

“This study provides strong evidence for the identification that SMs as source of bacterial contamination during operative procedures.”

But in “Why Face Masks Don’t Work”, now more or less scrubbed from the net, this was the begin…