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We're Back - Public Health Officials Demand More Mask Wearing Again

It's never going to stop, because they can't accept reality

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Ian Miller
Sep 06, 2025
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It’s back—a tradition unlike any other: public health officials demanding the public wear masks to stop COVID-19.

Every year since 2020, public health officials have demonstrated a lack of awareness, a disregard for science, data and evidence, and a desire to compel behavior. And, perhaps more importantly, they’ve shown no intent to admit they were wrong or to revisit the claims made by Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As a reminder, an overwhelming amount of observational data showed that during the early pandemic period, masks failed to slow or stop the spread of COVID anywhere on earth. As a tacit acknowledgment of that data, health officials moved seamlessly to recommending double cloth masking, then layered masking, then double surgical masks, then N95 masks. They ignored when their predictions of doom, that areas without masking would perform worse than those that listened—were proven spectacularly wrong.

Every single study conducted on masking during the pandemic, including one in Denmark and another in Bangladesh, confirmed there was no benefit to mask-wearing. Then a gold-standard evidence review, compiling all available high-quality studies, showed the same. None of it has mattered, because it’s September 2025 and public health officials are demanding more masking anyway.

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