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They should just.call it a "no-causation correlational study." It's such a bad look to be so stuck in one's wrongness that one has to manufacture a study rather than just say "oops" and move on. And it pisses the rest of us off.

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The entire deprecation/power-move on the health care system began with masks. Every bad diktat that followed (counter cleaning -- Bad; barriers -- Bad; antisocial distancing -- Bad; lockdowns -- Bad; the list is endless) was enabled because they discovered people were so compliant with masking. Even as Vinay points out that we would all like peds-specific, COVID-specific RCTs, there have been MANY RCT's on masking with influenza over many years that show clearly that the masks are valueless. The virions are far, far smaller than the pores in all except P100 masks -- and P100 masks all have output ports; they are otherwise unwearable. None of the masks used in schools have any value.

But as they lose the "mask truth" fight, the power-mongers in both public health and government are afraid they will lose the compliance they have blissfully, arrogantly, and wrongly managed to extract out of populaces everywhere. The demise of "public health" will never be fixed in my lifetime, but they will do anything to try to hang on longer. My disappointment in NEJM and JAMA (I have been a reviewer for both of them) knows no bounds. They are clearly captured by a narrative, and the editorials to this junk science report are scandalous,, as Vinay so rightly points out.

Someone needs to call this spade a spade. This needs to be published somewhere else -- BMJ? Annals? Someone well enough plugged in to get this the kind of stage it deserves?

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