Masks?

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We must keep calm and resist the new 'muzzle mania' over face masks

PETER HITCHENS writes:

“… The evidence-light campaign to get us all to go about with soggy pieces of cloth on our faces is back …

“As the great Covid fear was getting into its stride, on March 31, 2020, the executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) health emergencies programme, Dr Mike Ryan, said at a briefing in Geneva: ‘There is no specific evidence to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit’ …

“Dr Jenny Harries, then a [UK] Deputy Chief Medical Officer, warned on March 12, 2020, that people could be putting themselves more at risk … by wearing masks …

“[But] on July 12, 2020, Deborah Cohen, the then health correspondent of BBC2’s Newsnight, reported that the WHO had reversed its advice on masks, from ‘don’t wear them’ to ‘do wear them’.

“The change was down to political pressure, not new scientific discoveries.

“Ms Cohen said on Twitter: ‘We had been told by various sources [that the] WHO committee reviewing the evidence had not backed masks, but they recommended them due to political lobbying’ …

“There is ‘The Science’ for you.

“And all that really remains is obedient conformism, panic and fear …”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12947665/Peter-Hitchens-face-mask-Covid-politics.html