{"id":1737075,"date":"2022-11-13T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737075"},"modified":"2022-11-13T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:49:08","slug":"karol-markowicz-masks-reduce-racism-study-is-latest-sign-u-s-medical-establishment-is-insanely-perilously-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karol-markowicz-masks-reduce-racism-study-is-latest-sign-u-s-medical-establishment-is-insanely-perilously-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol Markowicz: \u201cMasks Reduce Racism\u201d Study Is Latest Sign U.S. Medical Establishment Is Insanely, Perilously Woke"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fkarol-markowicz-masks-reduce-racism-study-is-latest-sign-u-s-medical-establishment-is-insanely-perilously-woke%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=1737075&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Is there anything masking can\u2019t do? Except for control COVID spread, of course.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2211029?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new study<\/a> in the New England Journal of Medicine purports to show that mask policies in schools work to contain COVID. But that\u2019s not all: The authors conclude, \u201cWe believe that universal masking may be especially useful for mitigating effects of structural racism in schools, including potential deepening of educational inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure, masks help fix structural racism. Why not? And the next study will show masking fights climate change.<\/p>\n<p>No, what this study shows is that much of the medical establishment continues to be intensely woke \u2014 and deeply dishonest because of it. Just as the \u201cexperts\u201d told us gathering in crowds wasn\u2019t OK in spring of 2020, but just weeks later protesting for Black Lives Matter somehow <em>was<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This dishonesty is going to hurt us all for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>As for this study specifically: It does not prove what the authors intended to. It\u2019s just the latest in a push by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/02\/hey-nyc-parents-its-time-to-mouth-off-about-toddler-mask-mandates\/\">agenda-driven scientists<\/a>, and the media who love them, to get people back in masks.<\/p>\n<p>The study centers on two Massachusetts school districts that didn\u2019t remove their mask mandates as soon as the state allowed, in March 2022, but kept them until June. A few months later, they saw slightly lower COVID rates than the other districts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-356.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-356.jpg\" alt=\"Mannequins are dressed to display face masks in 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-24626148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-356.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-356.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-356.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mannequins are dressed to display face masks in 2020. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robin Utrecht\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Gett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing that COVID could lay in wait like that, ready to punish those who behaved badly months earlier. What\u2019s even more startling: COVID rates in <em>all<\/em> the schools were <em>higher<\/em> before anyone took off their mask \u2014 but that uncomfortable fact goes unmentioned in the write-up.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the study doesn\u2019t look at actual mask use, just the mandates. Nor does it account for <em>any<\/em> differences in behavior, income level, lifestyles and so on. (Which also means it can\u2019t show a thing about masks and \u201cstructural racism,\u201d whatever that is anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and: It\u2019s an \u201cobservational\u201d study \u2014 the kind the left dismissed as irrelevant when we\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianmSC\/status\/1330220439298301955\">point out<\/a> that New Mexico and next-door Utah had very similar COVID trajectories despite very different masking policies. Or that Europe largely didn\u2019t mask kids in school <em>at all<\/em> but had similar or lower rates than we did. None of that counted.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Which didn\u2019t stop The New York Times\u2019 Roni Caryn Rabin from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/10\/health\/covid-schools-masks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promoting the new study<\/a> as \u201ca so-called natural experiment\u201d and breathlessly concluding, \u201cThe bottom line: Masking mandates were linked with significantly reduced numbers of Covid cases in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is full-on nonsense. The mask mandates did no such thing. New Mexico-Utah and Europe are just part of the <em>avalanche<\/em> of \u201cnatural experiments\u201d that prove it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pathetic that in November 2022, we have to keep pointing out the obvious \u2014 and that garbage science like this destroys everyone\u2019s confidence in the medical field.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-COVID, trusting the medical establishment was the default for all of us, most conservatives included. I\u2019m firmly on the right, but when the health agencies told me in the early days of the pandemic that masking worked, I believed them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet things quickly stopped making sense. Masking outside seemed ludicrous right off the bat, yet it would be a long time before these same health agencies admitted it.<\/p>\n<p>Not until April 25, 2021, did Dr. Anthony Fauci say, \u201cIt\u2019s common sense to know that the risk when you are outdoors, which we have been saying all along, is extremely low, and if you are vaccinated it\u2019s even lower.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-358.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Fauci\" class=\"wp-image-24626150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-358.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-358.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/masks-reduce-racism-358.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci announced that he would be stepping down in December. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He had not, actually, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/22\/good-riddance-to-dr-fauci\/\">been saying<\/a> that all along \u2014 and those of us who had that \u201ccommon sense\u201d got targeted and ridiculed for being \u201canti-science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t that we stopped \u201cbelieving\u201d in masking. It\u2019s that we were lied to and then realized it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tKeep up with today&#8217;s most important news\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tStay up on the very latest with Evening Update.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And \u201ccommon sense\u201d did not prevail at all in blue areas. My <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/27\/im-leaving-nyc-to-protect-my-children\/\">family moved to Florida<\/a> in January 2022 because our kids were still forced to mask at their New York City public schools, <em>outdoors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These bonkers policies destroyed the trust of so many people, and it will be far more difficult than it seems to restore it.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the problem isn\u2019t just with masking. It\u2019s that the medical establishment has gone fully woke. Wokeness goes hand-in-hand with forced conformity.<\/p>\n<p>No one is allowed to step out of the woke lines \u2014 though those lines are free to shift at any time. It\u2019s very Soviet.<\/p>\n<p>Under those rules, you can\u2019t be critical of even this cockamamie study; you\u2019re supposed to see that someone squiggled some lines on a graph and pretends it \u201cproves\u201d something it clearly doesn\u2019t because you need to support your \u201cside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inside the woke echo chamber, you even have to embrace insane ideas like \u201cmasking fights racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one at the Times could write an article about how a study like this is gibberish. Medical professionals and journalists who point out the obvious, that the study makes no sense, will be quickly excommunicated.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sick, and it has to stop. This isn\u2019t science, it\u2019s politics \u2014 and this woke cancer has to be fought until it\u2019s defeated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @Karol<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything masking can\u2019t do? Except for control COVID spread, of course. 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