This large group of international researchers reviewed dozens of rigorously correct, randomized clinical trials of “physical interventions” against respiratory diseases. These diseases included influenza and COVID-19 during the pandemic, and these researchers failed to find even a “modest effect” on infection or illness rates from any type of mask.

Furthermore, the effects that masking is having on health, childhood development, speech development, etc. are unknown and are under-investigated. Ergo – governments aren’t funding this research. Without government funding, the answer to the damage done will never be answered.

So, here we are in 2023. Why does this matter? Mask mandates are gone, right?

You think this is over?

Not for our children and grandchildren. The damage done is ongoing and real.

[The data may have settled the matter scientifically. It’s never over for The Science®, however. Adam and I will talk about that in our next episode of The Amiable Skeptics on Monday. — Ed]