{"id":1471115,"date":"2022-05-11T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471115"},"modified":"2022-05-11T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:16:08","slug":"flashback-2018-video-shows-public-health-expert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-2018-video-shows-public-health-expert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: 2018 Video Shows \u2018Public Health Expert\u2019 Admitting Masks Only Work To \u2018Cause Alarm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-2018-video-shows-public-health-expert-admitting-masks-only-work-to-cause-alarm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/4675295875_e097122317_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A 2018 video of public health professional Laurie Garrett resurfaced on May 9 via Twitter showing that health experts were well aware of the ineffectiveness of masks before the Covid outbreak. Despite this knowledge, masks only recently began disappearing. People can now enter grocery stores and fly on planes without their faces half-hidden, after two years of mass mandates and massive public pressure to comply with them.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Garrett, author of <em>The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance<\/em>, announces to the National Academy of Medicine that a large-scale study conducted in Japan found that masks do not help defend against viruses such as the 2009 influenza. Instead, the main advantage of masks is to cause frightened behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe major efficacy of a mask is that it causes alarm in the other person, so you stay away from each other,\u201d Garrett said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>The clip comes from Garrett\u2019s keynote address for the National Academy of Research entitled \u201cFrom the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to 2009 H1N1 Pandemic to Now: Is the World Ready to Respond to the Next Outbreak?\u201d In her address, she explained the horrors of these previous pandemics which included quarantines, mask-wearing, and school shutdowns\u2013 aspects mirrored in the Covid pandemic. She also pointed out how those pandemics were dealt with and the future of pandemics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her comment in the clip answered a question about protecting against viruses, like the 2009 influenza, that are \u201cvery efficient at human to human transition.\u201d She used the SARS epidemic as an example, saying, \u201cDid the masks really help them? Did the masks keep the virus out? Almost certainly not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 study from Bangladesh of about 350,000 people in 600 villages research showed an exception to her assertion: surgical masks such as the N95 and KN95 are more successful at protecting their wearers against the virus. However, the research also showed that cloth masks\u2013the masks a majority of Americans wore during Covid\u2013 are ineffective.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite her opposing claims, Garrett advocated for wearing masks of any kind throughout the Covid pandemic. She used the Bangladesh study to validate mask-wearing without any distinction as to the type of mask a person should wear. On MSNBC in 2020, she encouraged people to continue wearing masks even after they were vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know really whether you\u2019re still capable of carrying the virus in your body, even though you are not getting severe disease,\u201d Garrett said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, her profile on Twitter includes a picture of her wearing a mask.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2018 video of public health professional Laurie Garrett resurfaced on May 9 via Twitter showing that health experts were well aware of the ineffectiveness of masks before the Covid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":770,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}