![]() ![]() That message is backed up by Queensland CHO Dr John Gerrard, who like Coatsworth is a leading infectious disease specialist, who rejects mask mandates. “The message is ‘take responsibility, make your own choice’,” he said. ![]() “It’s hard to see how an intervention in a school is going to save an 80-year-old in an aged-care facility, particularly when there is no strong evidence that such a measure would change the epidemic curve,” Dr Coatsworth said last week.įederal Health Minister Mark Butler said earlier this month that the prevailing expert opinion is that the country has moved beyond mask mandates. Infectious disease expert and Stanford School of Medicine, Professor Jay Bhattacharya, has slammed those who advocate mask mandates particularly for children given “the lack of randomised evidence showing any efficacy from child masking”.Īustralia’s former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth, who unlike most of the state chief health officers happens to be an infectious disease physician, has also warned against taking unnecessary measures that target children. Hong Kong, despite almost universal mask-wearing, recently endured one of the world’s worst Covid outbreaks.” ![]() Mask mandates in schools also seem to have done little to reduce the spread. To do this in July 2022 is unforgivable given the wealth of international data that shows mask mandates do little to nothing to curb Covid rates.Īs paediatric infectious disease expert Dr Shamez Ladhani, a consultant paediatrician at the UK Health Security Agency said earlier this year: “I cannot find a single study that justifies mask wearing in schools.” The BBC reported that “the (UK) government’s own study in the autumn did not provide proof of a statistically significant impact”.Įven the Covid alarmists at the New York Times have admitted that mask mandates are ineffective: “In US cities where mask use has been more common, Covid has spread at a similar rate as in mask-resistant cities. The Dan Andrews government giving a directive that’s seen as a mandate by stealth is cowardly. The chronically inaccurate dial-a-quote “experts” are back in the news, given a platform by lazy journalists, to air their dire predictions.įunny how we never hear an explanation on why their last prediction was so spectacularly wrong.Īnd, they are again targeting children – the lowest risk demographic for Covid-19 – with their irrational scaremongering.įorcing children to be muzzled during school hours is cruel and unnecessary. The same Covid catastrophists who have been consistently wrong over the past two-and-a-half years are again agitating for further restrictions, stay-at-home orders and useless mask mandates. Our children have suffered enough at the hands of hysterical hypochondriacs and their Covid-19 fever dreams. The same catastrophists who have been consistently wrong about Covid are again agitating for useless mask mandates that are cruel and unnecessary. I know you all love this columnist but try reading the words, a lot of truth there:
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