"99 percent of the population put them on.”
“Experts now say widespread mask usage appears to be a major reason, perhaps even the primary one, why the city hasn’t been devastated by the disease.”
“If not for universal masking once we depart from our home every day…Hong Kong would be like Italy,” said an expert government advisor.
These quotes illustrate how experts and their partners in the media have operated during COVID — present unproven claims with zero evidence, repeat them as stated fact, and use their assertions to enforce mandates based on appealing to their own (generally incompetent) authority.
We may never learn the motivations behind the great mask wearing shift in early 2020, when experts disregarded years of carefully collected
pre-pandemic planning by recommending universal masking, but this article does provides a helpful explanation.
Many of them believed in propaganda.
Survey data has confirmed that mask usage has remained remarkably high and demonstrably consistent over time.
So has it worked?
Well, not exactly.
In just a matter of weeks, cases in Hong Kong rose from a daily average of 1 per million to 5,089 per million, an increase of 508,800%.
Mask compliance remained unchanged. The Science™ was wrong. The Experts™ were wrong. Even with perhaps the world’s most dedicated mask wearing populace, the numbers have exploded.
Despite Twitter promoted nutritionist Eric Feigl-Ding asserting that Hong Kong’s masking and interventions illustrated how to “defeat COVID,” newly reported deaths there are nearly 4x higher than they’ve ever been in the US.
Oh, and you may recall how the expert microbiologist advising the Hong Kong government claimed that without universal masking, Hong Kong would be like Italy…
Deaths in Hong Kong are now 2.5x higher than they were in Italy’s first wave.
'Not wearing masks is like not wearing pants'
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