OCLA Asks WHO to Retract Recommendation Advising Use of Face Masks in General Population
Posted on June 21, 2020 by admin
http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-06-21-Letter-OCLA-to-WHO-DG.pdf
OCLA has sent a letter (en français ici) to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asking him to retract the WHO’s recommendation advising the use of face masks in the general population to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
The letter criticizes the lack of a valid scientific basis for the WHO’s recommendation and expresses OCLA’s concerns about serious harms to individuals and societies stemming from the recommendation and from government impositions of face masks on the general public.
The letter includes statements such as:
“… the WHO cannot collect and rely on potentially biased studies to make recommendations that can have devastating effects (see below) on the lives of literally billions. Rather, the WHO must apply a stringent standards threshold, and accept only randomized controlled trials with verified outcomes. In this application, the mere fact that several such quality studies have not ever confirmed the positive effects reported in bias-susceptible reports should be a red flag.”
and
“It is an unjustified authoritarian imposition, and a fundamental indignity, to have the State impose its evaluation of risk on the individual, one which has no basis in science, and which is smaller than a multitude of risks that are both common and often created or condoned by the State.”
A copy of the letter is posted here and embedded below.
Une traduction en français de la lettre est disponible ici.
Related: Dr. John H. Murphy’s Letter to the Editor of 2 June 2020, submitted to the WHO Bulletin (the WHO refused to publish Dr. Murphy’s letter)
http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JHMurphy-Letter-to-the-Editor-Bull-WHO-June-2-2020.pdf