Have you noticed there is never a reference to published data regarding the effectiveness of masks on controlling the spread of the Wuhan flu (thank you China). Stop and think about this. In all the messages you have heard or read from the “experts” in regards to wearing a mask has there been any data presented backing up the request to mask up? I mean data not just a quote from some expert. You’re expected to accept their word as fact. They expect you to trust them. Well, after decades of the politicians, both the reds and the blues, saying one thing but doing something else who is going to trust them. No one and the data shows it.

Doing a search I came across this article from the University of California San Francisco. It doesn’t provide any hard data. There’s alot of ” I think . . . ” quotes and references but that’s it. But there was a link pointing to this paper. Finally, a credible document that I hoped would provide answers. Yes, I have read it – more than once. I strongly, suggest you educate yourself and read it while sitting home alone this Thanksgiving. Quoting from section 4 Mask Efficacy Studies sums up the situation as it was when the paper was published in April and most likely still today.

“Although no randomized controlled trials (RCT) on the use
of masks as source control for SARS-CoV-2 has been published, a number of studies have attempted to indirectly estimate the efficacy of masks.”

This current report published from Bond University in Australia is another interesting slant on the mask debate.

My personal opinion is that if government officials succumb to forcing citizens by enacting laws, like Boise’s newly elected progressive mayor, threatening the arrest of citizens for not wearing a mask they have failed at their duty of educating the citizenry. This near impossible task is a making of their own. It brings us back to the self-induced lack of trust in our elected officials. I ask you – if someone you do not trust asks you to do something how likely are you to heed that request?

This lack of trust is on display again as the vaccine’s get closer to being released. I’ve come across polls where a high majority of respondents will not be getting the shot or shots. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines that are all the buzz currently are built upon new and untested technology. So again a challenge lies ahead in convincing the populace these vaccines will be safe even though no long term trials will be done. I’m curious if the manufacturers will be shielded from future lawsuits in the case there are lurking issues. Will the government have to resort to forcing the vaccines on the citizenry. Time will tell.