Mainstream Media Now Turns on Masks By Mrs Vera West

It seems that some aspects of the Covid ideology are starting to be broken. There is today the item, covered elsewhere at the blog, of US Energy Department accepting the Covid lab leak hypothesis, the virus getting out of the Wuhan virology lab. Now we have, at long last, The New York Times.com, in an article by Bret Stevens reporting on the gold standard study by the Cochrane Review, which found that the wearing of masks during the plandemic did nothing to stop the transmission of Covid. Even more radical, Stevens criticised the  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for refusing to acknowledge the latest evidence of mask ineffectiveness of masks during the Covid-19 freak out.

It seems that the lies can only be maintained for so long before the truth outs, like the way water always finds its way through a box gutter, no matter how much silicon goo is put on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/the-new-york-times-publishes-anti-mask-opinion-98592e1e

Bret Stephens has been an Op-Ed columnist for the The New York Times since 2017. On February 21, 2023The New York Times published Stephens' Opinion article: The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned? Describing the recent Cochrane Review that found no evidence to justify forcing people to follow mask mandates, Stephens' article in The New York Times is just as newsworthy for indicating a sea change in the editorial policy of the newspaper. Imagine, as a leading media outlet, The New York Times could finally be breaking away from the three-year public health pandemic narrative--openly challenging not only mask mandates themselves, but also criticizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for refusing to acknowledge the latest evidence-based findings of mask ineffectiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

So why is this open criticism in the media happening now? Here's my guess: as fear of the pandemic gradually fades away with time, people are finally becoming more tolerant of questioning the pandemic responses we all went through. Who knows, maybe the blatant censorship will also come to an end, and we can get back to normal discussions where people openly debate the evidence and the policy it informs. We have no time to waste if we want to learn the lessons needed to avoid the same mistakes before the next pandemic arrives.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-divided-after-new-york-times-column-concedes-mask-mandates-did-nothing-conservative-a-hat

“Pro and anti-mask advocates battled on Twitter after New York Times columnist Bret Stephens covered a recent study that concluded masking made "no difference" on the spread of COVID.

The op-ed, headlined, "The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?" examined whether masks made a real difference in preventing transmission of the virus.  

Oxford epidemiologist Tom Jefferson concluded the science was clear. 

"There is just no evidence that [masks]," Jefferson reportedly said, "make any difference." 

"Full stop," Jefferson emphasized. 

The op-ed ignited a flame war on Twitter, with some conservative political commentators declaring vindication on claims that some of them have been making since early 2020. One pro-mask advocate cursed out the New York Times columnist, with another scientist calling some of the discussion around mask mandates "misinformation." 

"While it’s nice to see the NY Times finally admit masks are worthless, it’s false to say the mandates ‘did nothing,’" Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon wrote. 

"They harmed kids, eroded public trust, and psychologically damaged millions of people to the point where they’re still afraid to breathe in public."

"Natural immunity is as good as vaccinated immunity. Now, masks are ‘worthless.’ I'm old enough to remember when I was smeared as spreading 'misinformation' for saying the same things years ago," podcast host Kyle Becker tweeted in response to Stephens’ op-ed. 

Author David Zweig pointed out that the study on masking, published in collaboration with prestigious nonprofit Cochrane, was only allowed oxygen in the op-ed section of The Times.

"The remarkable thing here is that the only way the most prestigious data review on community masks - which found no clear evidence of benefit - made it into the paper of record was in an opinion piece The NYT Science desk did not deem it newsworthy."”

 

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