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Your footnote touches on something very important. The RCTs on masks fail to show a benefit, yet on the basis of a handful of observational studies masks are recommended - despite the authors of some of those studies stating explicitly that they're not causal studies. Yet Ivermectin, which is safe and has stronger evidence in favor, is ignored. Clearly medicine now follows the money - no one has a patent on Ivermectin so no manufacturer is championing the drug, and the CDC and FDA work for the pharmaceutical industry.

On the subject of runny noses and masks, some of the mask RCTs actually show more illness among the masked group vs. unmasked. But the studies are all lab testing for influenza specifically and since lab tests come back negative for influenza virus the study authors ignore the issue.

But as I keep pointing out, those people had fevers and coughs - as diagnosed by medical doctors. Clearly something was made much worse by the masks. Here's a list of the 18 RCTs and a very short summary of each, noting the negative results in some:

https://johnhowardroark.substack.com/p/enough-with-the-masks-already

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