Another high-profile result has arrived to confirm your suspicions about masks being useless acts of public health theater. St George’s Hospital, London, The UK’s largest teaching hospital, has announced that masks made no difference in infection rates.
Infection rates didn’t soar when mask mandates were removed in NHS facilities during the middle of an Omicron surge.
Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review has a slightly more colorful evaluation of the St George’s Study.
The U.K. Daily Mail reports that researchers from St George’s Hospital found absolutely no “statistically significant change” in the hospital-acquired COVID infection rate between the period of time when a mask mandate was in place vs. when it was relaxed. During the first phase of the study – from December 4, 2021 to June 2022 – all workers and visitors in the hospital had to wear masks everywhere. From June through September 2022, there was no mandate, except for “high-risk” wards, such as cancer treatment and ICUs.
The results? Given that rape victims were mercilessly forced to mask, we should have expected an unmistakable death count in phase two. Instead, there was no difference in infection rates observed in either phase. Moreover, those in high-risk wards – which served as the control group – “found no immediate or delayed change in infection rate,” aka no benefit whatsoever.
No surprises, but you’ve got to love the source because you can share it with the Mask-Nazis in your life because they’re still out there, and what do they have for a comeback? The largest teaching hospital in England isn’t a reliable source. Okay.