CDC Study: Majority Of COVID19 Sufferers ‘Always’ Wore Masks
Once again it appears there are conflicting facts, data and plenty of opinions about the efficacy of wearing masks to prevent contracting the Coronavirus.
In addition to causing “maskne” and skin infections on the face and around the mouth, persistent coughing, “mask mouth,” and respiratory illnesses including lung infections, it turns out that most everyone infected with COVID-19 “always” wore masks, according to a newly published study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study found 74.2% reported wearing masks “always” while 14.5% wore masks “often,” or 85% almost always woremasks.
It is difficult not to conclude that wearing non-surgical cloth face masks or face coverings does little to prevent contracting the coronavirus.
California Globe reported in April on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unilateral decision which he announced on MSNBC, to spend $1 billion on surgical face masks, and said the contract had already been “inked.” Newsom made the $1 billion face mask deal with Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD for 150 million N95 masks and surgical masks each month, despite the conflicting science about using face masks for coronavirus prevention. The real reason for the contract is still unknown.
However, the CDC study, conducted by 11 medical institutions, also said, “CDC and other public health authorities recommend community mitigation strategies to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (1,2).” And the CDC still recommends masks, saying “cloth face coverings help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others,” according to a July statement.
From the CDC Study:
Participants were asked about wearing a mask and possible community exposure activities (e.g., gatherings with ≤10 or >10 persons in a home; shopping; dining at a restaurant; going to an office setting, salon, gym, bar/coffee shop, or church/religious gathering; or using public transportation) on a five-point Likert-type scale ranging from “never” to “more than once per day” or “always.”
For each reported activity, participants were asked to quantify degree of adherence to recommendations such as wearing a face mask of any kind or social distancing among other persons at that location, with response options ranging from “none” to “almost all.”
In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of controlparticipants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public. Close contact with one or more persons with known COVID-19 was reported by 42% of casepatients compared with 14% of control-participants (p<0.01), and most (51%) close contacts were family members.
Interestingly, the CDC found:
Adults with confirmed COVID-19 (case-patients) were approximately twice as likely as were control-participants to have reported dining at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill. In addition to dining at a restaurant, case-patients were more likely to report going to a bar/coffee shop, but only when the analysis was restricted to participants without close contact with persons with known COVID-19 before illness onset. Reports of exposures in restaurants have been linked to air circulation (7). Direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance. Masks cannot be effectively worn while eating and drinking, whereas shopping and numerous other indoor activities do not preclude mask use. (Of note, the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options. In addition, the question about going to a bar or coffee shop did not distinguish between the venues or service delivery methods, which might represent different exposures.)
3.9% of respondents said they never wore face masks; another 3.9% said they rarely did.
Of the case patients and control participants 61.2% reported at least one of the following underlying chronic medical conditions: cardiac condition, hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency, psychiatric condition, diabetes, or obesity.
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Tom O
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I looked at this and laughed –
“Adults with confirmed COVID-19 (case-patients) were approximately twice as likely as were control-participants to have reported dining at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill. In addition to dining at a restaurant, case-patients were more likely to report going to a bar/coffee shop,”
And apparently that was their only activity where they might have been around people – never worked, never shopped, never went to a mall, whatever. Always nice to see how they are trying to find reasons to crash life worse, andfircet more small businesses that are on life support to finally die.
On the other hand “case-patients” doesn’t really have a lot of meaning. It doesn’t say these are sick people, even, just have tested positive it would appear. Something that you could do if you had been living in total isolation for the last year, and the first person you saw was an idiot with a hazmat suit and a swab to stick up your nose.
A lot of people don’t like to say this is a hoax. Too many people have died from it – probably about as many as hasn’t died from the flu and other respiratory ailments this past year. The truth is, if you can tell me “the virus can live on a toilet seat for x minutes” or “the virus can live on bank notes for up to 28 days” or “the virus can hide behind your ears waiting for you to touch it and move it to your eyes nose, or mouth,” then you should have been able to say “we have isolated the virus and this is its exact structure.” I don’t know “what” constitutes a COVID-19 death or sickness beyond an arbitrary statement pretending to be authoritative.
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Joel Walbert
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As far as i can tell, most deaths are due to metabolic dysfunction, immuno-supression, nutritional deficiency (specifically vitD) with likely a twist of over antibiotic over use. Im sure oxygen restriction and stress dont help either for the cytokine storm that many knowledgable people state is tied in with this. In other words, this whole dilemma destroys germ theory IMO
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Dean Michael Jackson
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“A lot of people don’t like to say this is a hoax. Too many people have died from it – probably about as many as hasn’t died from the flu and other respiratory ailments this past year. ”
Only Marxists don’t like to call it a hoax, naturally.
Since a pathogen referred to as COVID-19 has never been seen under an electronic microscope according to the CDC (isolates, the CDC calls it),[1] therefore no one has died from the Marxist hoax, it’s purpose to facilitate Marx’s directive for the “abolition of religion”, and the destruction of those civilizations “whose spiritual aroma is religion”:
Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx (1843)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critique_of_Hegels_Philosophy_of_Right.pdf
“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.”
…and…
“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.”
…and…
“It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world.”
Now you know what Marxists are referring to when they utter the phrase, “The Struggle”…
“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.”
At my blog, read the articles…
‘House of Cards: The Collapse of the ‘Collapse’ of the USSR’
‘Playing Hide And Seek In Yugoslavia’
Then read the article, ‘The Marxist Co-Option Of History And The Use Of The Scissors Strategy To Manipulate History Towards The Goal Of Marxist Liberation’
Solution
The West will form new political parties where candidates are vetted for Marxist ideology/blackmail, the use of the polygraph to be an important tool for such vetting. Then the West can finally liberate the globe of vanguard Communism.
My blog…
https://djdnotice.blogspot.com/2018/09/d-notice-articles-article-55-7418.html
[1] “Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available…”
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Don’t you just luv “currently available”! As if it’s no big scandal that the nations’ medical establishments have no pressing need to know what they are dealing with in order to arrive at correct diagnoses, and develop a vaccine. Literally the medical community has been inverted, where the cart is pulling the mule!
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Tom O
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No. DMJ, you’re wrong. Not all that unusual. A lot of people don’t want to call it a hoax for all sorts of reasons, the first and foremost is NOT because they are Marxist. There are over 200,000 people in the US that have COVID-19 on their death certificates, and the truth is, I am willing to bet that damn few of those that lost them “to COVID” want to think they lost their loved one to a hoax. They may have to come around to that in time, but at this time, no, they do not want to believe they never had to lose their loved ones, but for a hoax being played on society. Keep pushing your blog. With comments like this, I can certainly see I have no real need to check it out.
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Dean Michael Jackson
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“I am willing to bet that damn few of those that lost them “to COVID” want to think they lost their loved one to a hoax.”
I’m not referencing them, I’m referencing the ‘false opposition’ who attempt to cloud the issue by saying the disease is real, but hyped.
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Rickk
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mosquito bite sufferers confused despite majority having chain link fence surrounding their yards
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Saeed Qureshi
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A simple experiment to establish the usefulness, or not, of wearing a mask! Experts or authorities would not do it – because it will expose the truth (or lie) about THE virus (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3488).
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Alan
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You are correct to say that realistic experiments to show the effectiveness of face masks have not been carried out. Many have tested the particle size that can pass through and even your proposal is similar. I think the effectiveness can only be evaluated if the studies relate to people doing normal activities. Then the problems start because there are many different types of mask and people wear them differently. It would also be difficult to have a control group when we are now legally required to wear masks. I assume a large sample size would be required because we all tend to do different things, and nobody would know what exposure to the virus the people had encountered. I don’t know enough about statistics to work out the sample size needed.
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Alder
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Can such a test be done on any pathogen, that is for any virus for which a standard sample is recognized?
The way you explain it seems to me that it would not be prohibitively expensive for a university type medical lab.
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Saeed Qureshi
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Alan:
The experiment which I suggested does not require humans or clinical studies. It is an in vitro test i.e. simple laboratory based.
Alder:
Indeed such a test can be done for any type of virus/pathogen. Yes it is a simple experiment and could be done in any basic laboratory setting.
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Crabon Bigfoot
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Why is it that the repeatability filter works on my comments and not Dean Michael Jackson’s. I’m tired of his repeatable diatribe.
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MattH
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A crab on your big foot sounds quite painful but not as painful as the person you mention.
He is either intentionally destroying the reputation and credibility of PSI or has little or no appreciation of situational awareness, possibly a result of Asperger’s Syndrome.
While free speech is one of the strengths of PSI the demented parrot you mention should be invited to submit an article, make comments only relevant to the article comments are appendaged to, or be banned from the site.
His diatribe does inhibit discussion and continuity of relevant comments.
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