Episode 004: The Truth About Masks

What’s the real truth about masks? What science, what data do we have to guide us about when to wear masks and when it’s nearly risk-free to take them off and not wear them?

That’s what we cover here today as well as the four keys to *not* catching Covid.

Links:

Danish Study

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

BLM post-protest study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717330/

The Marine Study

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717

Preprint – COVID aerosolized loads (94% of superspreader events in poorly vented areas): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.03.20206110v6.full

Indoor Transmission of Sars-CoV-2 (just one of 7,324 cases outdoors linked)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.12766

Irish Times – Outdoor transmission just 0.1% cases

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/outdoor-transmission-accounts-for-0-1-of-state-s-covid-19-cases-1.4529036?_ga=2.24768063.440780849.1618007143-575568946.1618007143

CDC Grossly Exaggerates Outdoor Transmission

https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/cdc-exaggerates-outdoor-transmission-rate-covid-19-experts/

No Debate – masks save lives: https://elemental.medium.com/the-science-and-politics-of-masks-in-the-covid-19-pandemic-8d5a63f6a20c