MASK ISSUES, LOCAL AND OTHERWISE, TWO ARTICLES

Two articles. As always, do your own due diligence:

THE EXAMINER NEWS -  Parents Appeal to Un-Mask Pleasantville School District Students November 9, 2021 Abby Luby -- Students wearing face coverings in schools has become a flashpoint at Boards of Education across the United States. Recently, two mothers made an emotional appeal to Pleasantville school officials to unmask the district’s students, especially the youngest children. Addressing the Board of Education during at a recent public hearing....MORE AT https://www.theexaminernews.com/parents-appeal-to-un-mask-pleasantville-school-district-students/

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Little Evidence Supports Use of Cloth Masks to Limit Spread of Coronavirus: Analysis By Zachary Stieber--November 15, 2021 Updated: November 15, 2021 

Cloth masks are of little use against COVID-19, according to a recently published analysis. Federal health authorities and a slew of jurisdictions require or recommend wearing masks as a way to limit spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.   But a trio of researchers pored over the studies often cited by the officials and found they were poorly designed and offered scant evidence supporting mask usage.

Many of the studies are observational, opening them up to confounding variables, the researchers said in their analysis (pdf), which was published on Nov. 8 by the Cato Institute. Of 16 randomized controlled trials comparing mask effectiveness to controls with no masks, 14 failed to find a statistically significant benefit, the researchers said. And of 16 quantitative meta-analyses, half showed weak evidence of mask effectiveness while the others “were equivocal or critical as to whether evidence supports a public recommendation of masks,” they added. MORE AT EPOCH TIMES HERE.