Both articles, refs worth your time

 

Dr. Jim Meehan: An Evidence Based Scientific Analysis of Why Masks are Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful

 

Key Points

-Decades of the highest-level scientific evidence (meta-analyses of multiple randomized controlled trials) overwhelmingly conclude that medical masks are ineffective at preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, including SAR-CoV-2.

-Those arguing for masks are relying on low-level evidence (observational retrospective trials and mechanistic theories), none of which are powered to counter the evidence, arguments, and risks of mask mandates.

-The majority of the population is at very low to almost no risk of severe or lethal disease from CoVID-19. Children are at an extraordinarily low risk of dying from CoVID-19. Based on CDC published data, 99.99815% of children that contract CoVID-19 survive.

-Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children in schools and daycares is very rare.

-Masks worn properly are well documented to cause harm to their wearers. Masks worn improperly, re-used, or contaminated are dangerous.

-Any reasonable risk to benefit analysis of medical masks concludes that the risks overwhelmingly outweigh the benefits.

-Children are at imminent risk of harm from mask mandates.

 

Outline

Evidence Based Medicine: How we (should) make decisions in science and medicine

Masks are Ineffective

 

a. Mixed Messages from the Experts

 

b. The Evidence Against Masks

 

c. The Evidence For Masks

 

Masks are Unnecessary

 

a. Fear and Politics are Subverting Science and Reason

 

b. Masking Children in Schools is Unnecessary - So Says The Science

 

Masks are Harmful: 17 Ways that Masks Can Cause Harm

Masking School Children is Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful

 

a. Mandatory masks in school are a ‘major threat’ to children's’ health, doctors warn

 

b. Forcing Children to Wear Masks in Schools is Unnecessary

 

c. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Physical Harm

 

d. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Mental and Psychological Harm

 

https://www.meehanmd.com/blog/2020-10-10-an-evidence-based-scientific-analysis-of-why-masks-are-ineffective-unnecessary-and-harmful/

 

https://archive.is/wip/FO1oe

 

related

 

"If masks don't work, then why do surgeons wear them?"

 

I'm a surgeon that has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures wearing a surgical mask. However, that fact alone doesn't really qualify me as an expert on the matter. More importantly, I am a former editor of a medical journal. I know how to read the medical literature, distinguish good science from bad, and fact from fiction. Believe me, the medical literature is filled with bad fiction masquerading as medical science. It is very easy to be deceived by bad science.

 

Although surgeons do wear masks to prevent their respiratory droplets from contaminating the surgical field and the exposed internal tissues of our surgical patients, that is about as far as the analogy extends

 

If a surgeon were sick, especially with a viral infection, they would not perform surgery as they know the virus would NOT be stopped by their surgical mask.

https://www.meehanmd.com/blog/2020-07-22-if-masks-dont-work-then-why-do-surgeons-wear-them/

 

https://archive.is/E3HyB