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Scientific studies during and after the 1918 flu showed no reduction of spread from masks even when universally worn. Scientists consequently admitted something must be wrong with their hypothesis on the value of masks. Yet the so-called experts today stubbornly and cling to it..
From a 1920 medical journal and study:
"If we grant that influenza is a droplet-borne infection, it would appear that the wearing of masks was a procedure based on sound reasoning and that results should be expected from their application. Studies made in the...
"If we grant that influenza is a droplet-borne infection, it would appear that the wearing of masks was a procedure based on sound reasoning and that results should be expected from their application. Studies made in the...
..."Department of Morbidity Statistics of the California State Board of Health did not show any influence of the mask on the spread of influenza in those cities where it was compulsorily applied, and the Board...
..."was, therefore, compelled to adopt a policy of mask encouragement, but not of mask compulsion.
"The reason for this apparent failure of the mask was a subject for speculation among epidemiologists, for it had long been the belief of many of us that droplet-borne infections...
"The reason for this apparent failure of the mask was a subject for speculation among epidemiologists, for it had long been the belief of many of us that droplet-borne infections...
..."should be easily controlled in this manner. The failure of the mask was a source of disappointment, for the first experiment in San Francisco was watched with interest with the expectation that if it proved feasible to enforce the regulation the desired result...
..."would be achieved. The reverse proved true. The masks, contrary to expectation, were worn cheerfully and universally, and also, contrary to expectation of what should follow under such circumstances...
..."no effect on the epidemic curve was to be seen. Something was plainly wrong with our hypotheses." https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.10.1.34">https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.21...