Prologue

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Last week UT (the most child-centric state in the country) set an expiry for their mask mandates--leaving it in place for children. This must not stand. I created a series of 4posts to arm parents with data to challenge this. This is the 1st
thesmileproject.global/post/un-maskin…
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Back in summer, many school districts made a “deal” with parents and children. Mask your kids, allow us to severely restrict their ability to interact with other children as human beings, and they can go to school.
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Parents were desperate, having watched the learning loss and depression of the spring, so they acquiesced.
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The science on masks was, and is not settled (in fact, prior to March 2020, it was settled very clearly in the OPPOSITE direction) and much of the health policy in this regard relies on specious research and conclusions.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26…
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Children do not appear to be major drivers of transmission. Thus, regardless of whether or not masks “work,”

WE WOULD EXPECt LIMITED TRANSMISSION IN SCHOOL.

Indeed, many have misused this as an argument for why masks work elsewhere.
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Because many within communities, and particularly schools, believe that it is the masks and social distancing that are keeping them safe, they are afraid to give them up, no matter how great the long-term harm to children.
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To get out of this rut, we must look at the data. From there, we must develop a plan that acknowledges what we know and what we don’t.
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Provides actions that will allow those who are concerned with the risks to remain a part of our community until they feel comfortable, and allows other to return to those aspects of life that they choose to, as they choose to.
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First, we must get a handle on 3 key things:

1. Children’s role in spreading COVID, & triggering severe disease in at-risk populations.
2 Relative risk by age group, co-morbidities & ethnicity.
3.The effectiveness of masks in controlling respiratory viruses

/end prologue
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Un-masking children: Part 1 of 4: Understanding Children's Role in COVID-19 Transmission.

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12 Mar
Un-masking Children:
Thread 1 of 4: The Role of Children in COVID-19 Transmission

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Children are not major drivers of COVID-19 transmission. This, the most authoritative study on transmission found not one incident of child-to-adult transmission.

nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…
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The study was a population-representative survey, after identifying COVID positive people, they used genome sequencing and contact tracing to identify how the disease spread through the community. This level of rigor is unique.
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Other studies that attempt to claim significant child-to-adult transmission of COVID have not performed this analysis. The genome-sequencing is what allowed them to say definitively that none of the cases was spread from a child to an adult.
Read 54 tweets
11 Mar
1/
This week I realized that kids will be the LAST to be un-masked. That can't happen. To help put an end to this madnessI have put together a 4-part series pulling together as much research as I can on why children should cease being masked, and how to effect that change.
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Back in summer, parents agreed to a deal: mask your kids and allow us to severely restrict their ability to interact with other children as human beings, & they can go to school. This should not have been the "deal".
thesmileproject.global/post/un-maskin…
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Children's relative risk of dying of COVID (regardless of comorbidity) is less than 1/2n that of flu. Coupled with their lower transmissibility, they should not be forced to mask to protect themselves or other children.
thesmileproject.global/post/un-maskin…
Read 5 tweets
4 Mar
1/n
On 3/8, Dr. Fauci said we don’t need to be walking around in facemasks. Then on April 3rd, he changed course and said we should wear masks to help slow the spread.

What changed?

New emails released by Judicial Watch give us a clue (p. 298)
judicialwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
2/n
In this message on 3/25, Canadian Dr., Gary Kobinger, one of the the members of the WHO STAG-IN task force, we may have our answer.
3/n
Dr. Kobinger suggests cloth masks might work b/c mask-wearing countries in East Asia seemed to have lower transmission vs. the rest of the world. He explicitly notes that data shows they DON’T work for flu or rhinoviruses--and DIDN’T work for SARS

smh.com.au/national/farce…
Read 20 tweets
4 Mar
1/n
Anybody hear President Biden calling Texas and Mississippi governors Neanderthals for rescinding mask mandates?

Lot of anger and disappointment there. I wonder it there's a better place to direct all that?

So weird how mask mandate states are also the no-school states...
2/n
There’s a reason that those graphs look so similar—it’s b/c while there is no correlation between repressive COVID restrictions and COVID deaths, there IS a significant correlation between COVID Restrictions & low-no school, and high unemployment.

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Know where else there’s a lot of misplaced outrage? Around COVID deaths. Liberal outrage ought to be focused on the CDC explaining the giant spring spike highlighted in yellow. Instead, it’s focused on Florida’s much smaller green bump.

Read 13 tweets
2 Mar
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We are in a 5-alarm social justice emergency. But the culprits are those states whose populations claim to care the most about social justice. BLM support is tightly tied to repressive COVID policies that result in stunningly low access to education and high unemployment.
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There is no link whatsoever between these stringency measures and decreased deaths. There IS a very strong link between these policies, high unemployment, and extremely limited access to education.
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This is because these policies have nothing to do with science or health, and everything to do with politics. Race, BLM and COVID policies have been wildly politicized, which is why these policies have their tightest correlation with BLM support.
Read 43 tweets
25 Feb
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This is true: ONLY thing that defines a state’s response to this is the political leaning of the populace—not the governor. This is why the electoral map correlates nearly perfectly with school closures. We the people are the problem—and the solution.
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And no, these restrictions don’t result in lower death. Only more unemployenent and lower traditional 5-day in-person school.

3/n

And yes, masks are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Belief that we can and must control the disease, rather than live with it are symbolized by the near religious belief in the “power” masks. Even the wording is religious.
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