JD, MBA. Health policy academic, bioethicist and science communicator. Senior Research Associate, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta.
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Not a joke. It's based on the accumulating evidence we have about covid causing brain damage. In adults, covid, even mild, causes average of 3 IQ point drop, and 2 more for reinfection. How is this impacting child brain development?
Here is a link to the open access study, where you can confirm everything I am saying.
Almost all illness right now is COVID or secondarily, common cold. And COVID come with a serious risk of Long COVID, as high as 20% in women according to recent Statistics Canada information.
This study had some other unusual findings as well, so we will see how it proceeds through peer review. @Daltmann10 could perhaps comment on the section regarding possible immune imprinting resulting in increased risk of infection for those who are highly vaccinated?
Lockdown revisionism involves false reimaginings of the pandemic where effective public health measures are wrongly reframed as discriminatory in intent and worthless. It can involve projection of already incorrect present beliefs onto a totally different context in the past.
About 5% of ALL US adults have activity limitations from their long COVID. This is obviously only counting people in the 55% who believe that they have had COVID. That means the real number will certainly be more. /2 
About 5% of ALL US adults have activity limitations from their long COVID. This is obviously only including people from the 45% who believe that they have had COVID. That means the real number could easily be double or more, or less than double. But it will certainly be more. /2 
Some EBM experts still don't accept that masks work. This is because they have fallen into the trap of believing their area of expertise is the only true lens of knowing.
My tweet thread here, which he was attempting to discredit, showed the Cochrane reviewers didn’t seem to be aware of the existence of the publicly available raw data from a key COVID-era masking trial, and didn’t contact the authors to ask for it.
Nor do they compare fit-tested P100 elastomeric respirators to surgical-style masks with far worse lab filtration rates & giant gaps in the fitment. There is NO NEED. It is unethical and pointless. We know respirators work. See also: international industrial safety standards.
The conversation started like this. @GidMK points out the three COVID-era masking studies included in the review showed clear and consistent benefit from masking. @paulglasziou ADMITS there was an effect from masking in COVID-era studies. Then wrongly frames Yale study as opaque. 