A graphic from the FDA printed in May 2009 during the beginning of the H1N1 outbreak by McClatchy-Tribune.

"Surgical masks and N95 respirators are not tested against specific microorganisms and should not claim to prevent specific diseases."

Note: viruses are not microorganisms
Dr. Laurene Mascola, director of acute communicable disease control for the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health told the L.A. Times in May 2009 that surgical masks are only effective for up to 20-30 minutes.

"Once they get most, they are no longer useful."
Dr. Dalius Briedis, director of clinical infectious diseases at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal told the Vancouver Sun during the start of H1N1 that surgical masks will provide "no more than 10-to-20 percent protection."

Interesting that's same as Sweden/Bangladesh RCTs.
Perhaps my personal favorite, from the @SunSentinel published Sep. 28, 2009:

"There's no proof they work and can impair breathing," they say of surgical masks.
There seems to be a fundamental debate whether viruses, which are non-living, are classified as microorganisms.

I'll let everyone decide the intent of that but just refer back to the disclaimer. Surgical masks have never been held up to prevent airborne diseases by viruses.
This is from the National Cancer Institute website. So again, so it's not an open and shut case lol

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5 Nov
There is not a single study in the entire world that has been produced during the pandemic, or especially before, that shows masks reduce infections by 80%.

This is the most comically bad misinformation I have ever seen. CDC has been reduced to outright lies.
Asterisk* there has not been a single observational study or randomized trial.

Have there been some computer models to come up with 80% number by arbitrarily making assumptions ahead of time? Probably. But GIGO.
Just to give you a heads up on how laughably bad this is, there have been two RCTs produced on masking with COVID-19. They found midpoints of 10-14% efficacy, neither of which found statistical significance to guarantee efficacy.

80% is not even in the universe of reality.
Read 4 tweets
5 Nov
Just from my own rudimentary surveillance, states that have announced they will file a lawsuit or oppose the OSHA rule by circuit:

1st: NH
4th: SC, WV
5th: LA, MS, TX
6th: KY, OH, TN
7th: IN
8th: AR, IA, MO, NE, ND, SD
9th: AK, AZ, ID, MT
10th: KS, OK, UT, WY
11th: AL, GA, FL
Some of these had a governor or attorney general previously announce after Sep. 9, and others, since then. But most have reaffirmed today that I've seen.

If you see any others that have come out stating they will oppose the rule in court, please link in this thread.
Some of these states have multi-state pacts and will file jointly, others will do so separately. AL/GA/FL will file jointly in the 11th. I believe KY/OH/TN are doing so jointly in the 6th.
Read 6 tweets
2 Nov
Man has "only a few decades" to solve the problem of global warming caused by pollution. Another dire warning coming out of the Climate Conference right?

No. It is from a Rand Corp scientist in 1969.
Meanwhile, in 1970, Dr. Reid Bryson was warning of a possible ice age coming by 2000 due to pollutants in the atmosphere.
But after he could no longer support the earth cooling, he backed off the ice age coming as soon as 2000 and in 1977, said it was still 3,000-5,000 years away.
Read 7 tweets
20 Oct
In Titusville, @GovRonDeSantis says the Federal government will not be allowed to weaponize agencies against concerned parents in Florida in their pursuit of parental rights over their child's education, including the decision whether to wear masks in schools
The father of a down syndrome, special needs student in Brevard County is now speaking. The father said a mask was being tied to his daughter's face when she couldn't keep it on against their will.
The data does not support any mask mandates of children in schools says @FLSurgeonGen. He says there simply isn't any justification for it.
Read 7 tweets
7 Oct
Masks are not mandatory now in classrooms in: UK, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium (12 & under), Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria (up to 5th grade), most of South America, etc. Masking children in the U.S. isn't science.
Also remember: the World Health Organization does NOT recommend masking kids 0-5 years old in any circumstance, despite our unscientific CDC guidance wanting to mask up 2 year olds.
Read 5 tweets
7 Oct
Nikki Fried is pushing a baseless conspiracy theory and shamelessly cherry picking data to push her mask agenda. She wants to force kids into masks even though much of the world has realized that is a pointless exercise.

I will destroy her narratives and her agenda.
First, there was NO statistically significant difference in case rates in the 2020-21 school year in Florida between the 40 county districts with mandatory masking and the 27 who did not have a mask policy and no statistical difference in community rates.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
In real world data, where cases were adjusted to end of year enrollment, there was a difference in masking districts to unmasked difference of only a few children per 1,000 kids enrolled in-person.
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