The obsession that politicians like Fauci, Jha and Walensky have with layering “interventions” and their deliberate obfuscation of the data is extremely relevant to the results from Cornell.
Remember, the researchers laid out that the university, as dedicated believers in The Science™, complied with exactly what they were “supposed” to do.
Masks and vaccinations required, mass testing and lightning quick contact tracing with enforced isolation.
So how successful were these efforts?
Based on analysis of routinely collected population surveillance data, Cornell’s experience shows that traditional public health interventions were not a match for Omicron. While vaccination protected against severe illness, it was not sufficient to prevent rapid spread, even when combined with other public health measures including widespread surveillance testing.
In short, the interventions failed.
It’s quite a stretch to identify these measures as what could be described as “traditional.” The exact same strategies that Fauci, Jha and Walensky claim have made an “enormous difference” were proven to be completely useless at preventing spread.
In order to protect their standing by avoiding criticisms of Team Groupthink, their discussion says that generalizing results might not be as applicable due to the limited demographics, mostly Cornell students, it stands to reason these results are significantly
MORE likely to show an effect than in general population.
Simply, the compliance rates were essentially universal, something that is extremely hard to achieve in other populations.
We’ve heard over and over and over again that part of the reason for the failure of masks and other interventions is insufficient compliance.
That was not possible at Cornell.
98% of campus was fully vaccinated, far exceeding any population level rate seen anywhere on earth:
Despite high vaccination rates (97.9% of campus
3), 98.6% of cases were breakthrough infections, and proportionately more named close contacts who became COVID-positive in this period (22.6%) than previously (4.4% between August 23 and November 27).
It’s also important to point out that noted CNN and MSNBC “
expert,” political commentator and conspiracy theorist
Peter Hotez claimed last year that 85-90% vaccination rate would get us “
past COVID.”1
Peter Hotez, always wrong
So 98% vaccination rates did nothing to slow the spread, but what about masks?
Well, according to the letter’s PDF download, masks were required in “all” indoor campus locations, and yet the university experienced significantly more outbreaks than the local communities:
Required inside all buildings on campus, all COVID-19 transmission all semester (except in private office space or in designated eating areas with distancing)
Something had clearly changed in the university setting, as similar outbreaks were not yet being seen in the off-campus community or neighboring counties.
What a huge surprise!
Universal masking indoors didn’t stop outbreaks and runaway case growth on campus:
How could this be?!
The studies debunking Fauci, the CDC and others are coming quickly
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