CDC Data Confirms Masks in Schools Are Ineffective, Despite Walensky's Zealotry
The organization's own data disproves public testimony
It should be clear by now that the CDC has done an abhorrent job advising the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their unquestioning certainty, despite poor or limited quality evidence, led to immeasurable harm across the United States. Given the dominance of the CDC on an international stage, the harm has unfortunately not been limited to domestic individuals or institutions.
Failure was evident early with the initial testing debacle, then only expanded and broadened over time as the organization’s transparent political leanings and incomprehensible faux-zero COVID fanaticism led to increasingly absurd recommendations.
Beyond the recommendations, however, the CDC also apparently publicly downplayed the seriousness of post-vaccine myocarditis, despite receiving a number of submitted reports.
The CDC also published a number of embarrassing studies desperately hoping to justify their masking recommendations.
Fortunately several intellectually honest researchers took it upon themselves to follow up on the CDC’s work, and on an incredibly important subject too.
And in a stunning turn of events, using the CDC’s own data, those researchers exposed that the CDC’s work doesn’t hold up to scrutiny once again.
CDC Cherry Picking
Back in late 2021 as the CDC was continually contradicting observable reality with bad science, they published an observational study showing an association between school mask mandates and pediatric COVID cases.
The study attempted to prove that masking in schools was a critical public health tool for stopping the transmission of the virus. Unsurprisingly, their motivation was apparent in the first sentence of the description, leaving no doubt as to their goal of promoting the endless masking of children.
“Consistent and correct mask use is a critical strategy for preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,” it starts.
Shockingly, they found that mask mandates in schools were associated with lower case rates among children.
Thankfully, two researchers, Ambarish Chandra from the University of Toronto, and Tracy Hoeg, friend of this Substack, decided to refute that finding.
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