UK Government Admits Evidence For Face Masks Stopping Virus Spread in Schools “Not Conclusive”

January 7th, 2022

Awake Goy

The UK government had admitted that the evidence for the efficacy of face masks stopping the spread of COVID-19 in schools is “not conclusive.”

Schools were ordered once again to instruct pupils to wear face masks in classrooms to stop the spread of Omicron, despite warnings that the face coverings are damaging learning.

Now authorities have been forced to acknowledge that proof face masks prevent the spread of the virus is statistically insignificant.

“The government’s own study in the autumn did not provide proof of a statistically significant impact,” reports BBC News.

“Schools where face coverings were used in October 2021 saw a reduction two to three weeks later in Covid absences from 5.3% to 3% – a drop of 2.3 percentage points.”

“In schools which did not use face coverings absences fell from 5.3% to 3.6% – a fall of 1.7 percentage points.”

“It said this was not statistically significant and the greater reduction in schools where masks were worn could be down to chance.”

Covid: Evidence on face masks in schools ‘inconclusive’ https://t.co/THTH1zwvL0

— Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) January 6, 2022

Despite the results of the report, which also concluded that face masks could harm learning, “a full analysis of the costs versus benefits of the policy has not been done.”

According to University of Oxford Professor Jim Naismith, when England dropped face mask mandates back in July and Scotland maintained them, it made “no meaningful difference” to infection rates.

We previously highlighted the comments of UK government SAGE adviser Dr Colin Axon, who dismissed masks as “comfort blankets” that do virtually nothing, noting that the COVID-19 virus particle is up to 5,000 times smaller than the holes in the mask.

“The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders’ scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through,” Axon said.

A study in Denmark involving 6,000 participants also found that “there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19,” the Spectator reported.

And yet face masks are a key component of the religion of fear, and are therefore likely to become permanent in numerous settings.

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