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Why Won’t Anyone Publish the Danish Mask Study?

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A study of 6,000 Danes was set to reveal whether wearing a face mask actually reduces the risk of COVID-19. The only problem is leading medical journals are refusing to publish the data, and the study's lead author hinted it's because they're not "brave enough" to do it

Does a mask work? It's a question recently posed by the Danish newspaper Berlingske,^[i] and one that would seem to demand an answer from scientists and public health officials alike. Yet, despite mask mandates existing in 34 U.S. states and the District of Columbia,^[ii] there's shockingly little hard data about whether or not they slow the spread of infectious disease.

Researchers from Denmark wanted to change that, conducting what may be the only randomized trial[iii] to determine if masks actually protect against COVID-19,^[iv] but multiple medical journals have refused to publish the findings.

Thomas Benfield, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen and one of the study's lead authors,^[v] was asked when it would be published. Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson published Benfield's emailed response on Twitter, which is simply: "As soon as a journal is brave enough …"^[vi]

What Does the Danish Mask Study Reveal?

Speaking to Nature in October 2020, Benfield said his team wasn't yet ready to share the study's results.^[vii] In truth, three medical journals -- The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association -- have refused to publish the study, leading to speculation that it reveals a message that goes against the status quo.

Berlingske, which is the oldest daily newspaper in Denmark, suggests this is so, stating (loosely translated), "The researchers behind a large and unique Danish study on the effect of wearing a mask even have great difficulty in getting their research results published. One of the participating professors in the study admits that the still secret research result can be perceived as 'controversial.'"^[viii],[ix]

The study included 6,000 participants who were randomly assigned to wear a face mask or not for a 30-day period. Participants were confirmed to not have COVID-19 or symptoms of it at the start of the study, and they were required to spend more than three hours per day outside of the home with exposure to other people during the study period.^[x]

Described as an "outstanding sample," the Berlingske article, which was written by Lars Henrik Aagaard, praised the study, noting, "The study and its size are unique in the world, and the purpose was once and for all to try to clarify the extent to which the use of masks in public space provides protection against corona infection."^[xi]

While the results were originally expected to be published in August 2020, Benfield later said that his comment was taken "a bit out of context" and, "The article is being reviewed by a respected journal. We have decided not to publish data until the article has been accepted."^[xii]

Study Co-Author Hints at Controversial Results

Aagaard interviewed another of the study's researchers, Christian Torp-Pedersen, a chief physician at North Zealand Hospital's research department, who similarly said, "We cannot start discussing what they (the medical journals) are dissatisfied with because, in that case, we must also explain what the study showed, and we do not want to discuss that until it is published."^[xiii]

He then went on to say that he "might also have dared to go as far as Benfield," had he been asked why the results haven't been published, referring to his "brave enough" comment. Aagaard asks, "Does this mean that your research results may be perceived as controversial in the eyes of some?" to which Torp-Pedersen replies, "That's how I want to interpret it, too."

Aagaard then states, "Can one interpret a controversial research result in the sense that no significant effect of mask use is demonstrated in your study?" Torp-Pedersen says, "I think that's a very relevant question you are asking."^[xiv]

Dr. Henning Bundgaard with Denmark's Rigshospitalet is another of the study's authors. In speaking with Bloomberg in July 2020 -- when he still expected the study's results to become public the next month -- he said, "All these countries recommending face masks haven't made their decisions based on new studies."^[xv]

Denmark was one of the latest countries to institute a mask mandate, which took effect October 29, 2020 for all public indoor spaces.^[xvi] In July, however, Bundgaard told Bloomberg he worried mask mandates may offer a "false sense of security" and make people "sloppy" when following other guidelines like handwashing, self-isolating if you're sick and social distancing. Also revealing is Bloomberg's last paragraph:

"Bundgaard's study on masks is due to be published next month. In the meantime, he says he hopes they don't become mandatory in Denmark."^[xvii]

Masks have become a contentious topic in the U.S., dividing neighbors, colleagues and families over whether or not they slow the spread of infectious disease. The controversy continues to grow, particularly since public health officials have been giving conflicting information from the start,^[xviii] and solid data, such as what may be revealed via the Danish study, is sorely lacking.

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References

[i] Washington Examiner October 22, 2020 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-scientific-journals-reject-controversial-danish-study-on-effectiveness-of-face-masks-against-coronavirus-report

[ii] Axios August 4, 2020 https://www.axios.com/states-face-coverings-mandatory-a0e2fe35-5b7b-458e-9d28-3f6cdb1032fb.html

[iii] Twitter October 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1317875526997102594

[iv] ClinicalTrials.gov, Reduction in COVID-19 Infection Using Surgical Facial Masks Outside the Healthcare System https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04337541

[v] Nature October 6, 2020 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

[vi] Twitter October 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1317875526997102594

[vii] Nature October 6, 2020 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

[viii] The Blaze October 22, 2020 https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-masks-rejected

[ix] Berlingske October 19, 2020 https://www.berlingske.dk/videnskab/professor-stort-dansk-maskestudie-afvist-af-tre-top-tidsskrifter

[x] Washington Examiner October 22, 2020 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-scientific-journals-reject-controversial-danish-study-on-effectiveness-of-face-masks-against-coronavirus-report

[xi] The Blaze October 22, 2020 https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-masks-rejected

[xii] Washington Examiner October 22, 2020 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-scientific-journals-reject-controversial-danish-study-on-effectiveness-of-face-masks-against-coronavirus-report

[xiii] The Blaze October 22, 2020 https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-masks-rejected

[xiv] The Blaze October 22, 2020 https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-masks-rejected

[xv] Bloomberg July 26, 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-26/face-mask-photo-op-adds-to-bewilderment-over-non-use-in-denmark

[xvi] The Local October 29, 2020 https://www.thelocal.dk/20201029/denmarks-extended-face-mask-requirement-takes-effect-these-are-the-rules-you-need-to-know

[xvii] Bloomberg July 26, 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-26/face-mask-photo-op-adds-to-bewilderment-over-non-use-in-denmark

[xviii] Twitter February 29, 2020 https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160

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Of Masks and Men: Several Insights and Alternative views from Gizmodo and P.I.R.

Although many of us are required to wear masks in our communities, in stores and businesses, in our own business, and outdoors any time we can't social distance, we don't like it, but we do comply for a variety of reasons. Being in a city in a dense population area that was hard hit by COVID-19, and where it can be hard to avoid being close to people, where the peer pressure and medical community are strongly entrenched, it can be difficult and even dangerous to protest mask-wearing and thus cut oneself off from friends, peers, work, etc. and suffer the ostracism, distrust and disdain of those in our sphere. Not to mention that mask wearing is still controversial, and there are both benefits and risks that have already been discussed to death. My family members are all mature, whether in high-risk group or not. For me, its just better to be safe than sorry, and blend in, which doesn't mean I don't complain or point out the inconsistencies in the directives...it just means I comply when people are around, and I spend a lot of time alone, either at home or in nature, so I can be mask-free. ~PB

Dr. Fauci Made the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse by Lying About Masks

Matt Novak 6/16/2020

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Dr. Anthony Fauci has been hailed as a hero during the coronavirus pandemic, delivering thoughtful health advice while most members of the Trump regime have spread misinformation about covid-19. But there’s one area where Fauci let America down, hindering the public health response and giving the U.S. both the highest coronavirus case count and the worst recorded death toll in the world. Simply put, Fauci lied about whether masks were helpful in slowing the spread of the virus.


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Fauci was asked yesterday by financial news outlet The Street why the U.S. government didn’t promote masks early on during the pandemic. Fauci, who sits on the Trump regime’s zombie-like coronavirus task force, hinted that he knew masks worked, he just wanted any available masks to be saved for health care workers.

“Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N-95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply,” Fauci said. “And we wanted to make sure that the people, namely the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected.”


Fauci didn’t just fail to promote masks early on, he actively discouraged the use of masks, saying they didn’t work. Americans are now paying the price because too many people think masks are useless to combat the coronavirus. In reality, masks have been shown to help prevent the spread of covid-19, as the CDC now admits.


All we need to do is look at the things that Fauci was saying back in February—a time before most Americans were taking the threat of covid-19 seriously and people like Donald Trump were assuming it was just a problem for the Chinese government.


“There is no reason for anyone right now in the United States, with regard to coronavirus, to wear a mask,” Fauci told Spectrum News DC on February 14.


It was something that Fauci would say repeatedly whenever he gave interviews in February, as the pandemic spread to countries like Germany, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. And Fauci may not have known it yet, but coronavirus was also spreading quickly in the U.S. By the end of February, over 20 countries had identified the coronavirus within their borders.


Despite being remembered as level-headed during the early days of the crisis in the U.S., Fauci was incredibly slow to publicly recognize the threat from coronavirus. On February 17, he recalled stories of people asking whether it was safe to travel, ridiculing the idea that it might not be wise to get on a plane. But it was clear to anyone paying attention to news media outside of the U.S. that the coronavirus would soon be an international problem.


First, a quick lesson in recent history: Human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus was confirmed on January 21, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said publicly that the health crisis from coronavirus “must be taken seriously,” on January 21, over 20 million people in China were put into lockdown on January 23, Disneyland locations in Hong Kong and Shanghai both closed in the last week of January, and countries like Australia were already setting up quarantine for some travelers in the first week of February. High school teachers returning to Australia from China were even giving classes by Zoom in early February, as Gizmodo reported at the time.


By mid-February, the pandemic in Italy had gotten so bad that hospitals were becoming overwhelmed and case counts were rising exponentially. The Lombardy region of Italy went into lockdown and on February 23 grocery store shelves were stripped bare as people purchased food in a panic.


With all of this going on around the world, February 17 was an incredibly late date to be making fun of people who were concerned about travel. But that’s precisely what Fauci did in the pages of USA Today.


“I was getting calls from people in Sacramento saying, ‘Can I get on an airplane to go to Seattle?’” Fauci told USA Today on February 17. “Like, what? What does that got to do with anything?”


We now know that the first identified American death from covid-19 was on February 6 in San Jose, California. And because the CDC wasted the entire month of February with faulty tests, no one knows just how widespread the disease already was in the U.S. during the first weeks of February. And it wasn’t just in February that Fauci dismissed the threat. As late as March, Fauci was still insisting that masks were bad for public health.


“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” Fauci told 60 Minutes on CBS during an interview that aired March 8. “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences—people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”


It’s no surprise that anti-mask advocates often use Fauci’s interview with 60 Minutes when they try to discredit masks as an effective tool on social media. And platforms like Facebook and Twitter are still filled with people who insist that you can actually hurt yourself by wearing a mask because you’re forced to inhale carbon dioxide. It’s a dumb and inaccurate argument, but it’s surprisingly common.


Masks were the butt of jokes in early March, as people like Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz infamously wore a gas mask on the House floor while he went to vote on the $8.3 billion emergency spending bill passed on March 4. Gaetz and other Republicans appeared on Fox News to insist that it was all nothing but hype, something that some commentators like Laura Ingraham still claim, despite the fact that tens of thousands of Americans are still contracting the virus every single day.

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Other western countries like the UK were also initially skeptical of masks, leading to a terrible outbreak in England, exacerbated by a bungled response from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a man who eventually survived his own bout with covid-19 after being moved to the ICU and given oxygen. The BBC, Britain’s public broadcaster, even aired anti-mask segments that insisted facemasks did nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus, including this one from March 22 that’s still available on YouTube.


The UK currently has over 298,000 cases and at least 41,000 deaths, the fourth worst outbreak in the world. The U.S. has over 2.1 million cases and more than 116,000 deaths, with no signs of the pandemic slowing down.


What would have happened if Fauci had been honest with Americans back in February, leveling with people that the U.S. didn’t have a good supply of facial coverings for health workers and that any N-95 masks should be reserved for doctors and nurses? Fauci could have explained that while masks worked, they needed to be reserved for health care professionals. The government was seizing most of the masks while they were shipped anyway, so it’s not like most masks were finding their way to stores.


Instead, Fauci and other top government officials made fun of people who wanted to wear a mask. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams even told people on February 29 to stop buying masks because they don’t work.

“Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” Adams tweeted. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”


And, as a result, there was mass confusion when the government finally flipped and started to recommend masks for everyone, even if they had to make them at home. The CDC didn’t change its guidance on mask use until April 3, finally recommending that people wear masks, even if they’re homemade out of cloth.



© Photo: Getty Images A restaurant guest wears a facemask with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as Fish Tails bar and grill opens for in-person dining, amid the coronavirus pandemic, on May 29, 2020 in Ocean City, Maryland Fauci’s refusal to embrace masks has had a real impact on the way that Americans perceive the coronavirus fight. And, like everything today, even masks have become a partisan battleground. Roughly 70% of Democrats say they wear a mask “every time” they leave the house, according to a poll late last month by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Compare that with just 37% of Republicans.


There have been subtle differences in the ways that each country has fought the coronavirus pandemic. New Zealand closed its borders and implemented a system to test residents. Kiwis then scaled up its track and trace program to identify close contacts, isolating them so that they didn’t get others sick. Taiwan also implemented track and trace procedures, but it put a special emphasis on masks to control community spread. Hong Kong put a heavy emphasis on “universal masking” as well, which is credited with keeping the spread of covid-19 to a minimum.


Health officials in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan even tried to warn western countries that they needed to wear masks, and it’s not the fault of the American people that they didn’t listen. Americans were hearing from their own health experts, not watching international news.


“If you are going to a crowded place, put on a mask even if you are not ill because others may be, even if they have cough etiquette or sneeze etiquette, they may still get in touch with you,” Dr. Gabriel Leung, an expert on SARS and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, said at a press conference in Hong Kong on January 21, as Gizmodo reported at the time.


But America’s own health officials, people like Anthony Fauci, were telling Americans that masks were useless. And Americans are going to pay the price in the months and years ahead, as there’s no guarantee that a covid-19 vaccine will even work if it’s developed. It doesn’t matter if his heart was in the right place in some effort to save masks for doctors and nurses, Fauci did real harm to public health in the United States.


When all is said and done, Fauci might be remembered as a folk hero, but he sure has a lot of blood on his hands. And none of this is anywhere close to done.


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Liberty and Justice for All. What a concept!

As often occurs, some of my best insights get sparked by a comment or post on Twitter or a discussion thread on Facebook or blogs I follow.  I found this cartoon on Twitter and re-posted it FB, where my intended quick comment expanded into a deeper reflection. ~PB

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Liberty and Justice for All. What a concept!
by Phoenix Boulay  25-Sept-2017


Take a knee. Odd phrase. Strange action, I used to think. Today I have come to realize a lot of things because of this controversy. It's not about disrespecting the flag or the Military. Most protesters expressed that they have the utmost respect for those who serve, and either served themselves, or had family or friends who served. They love this country. They insist, this is the greatest country of all. We have the freedom here to protest that people in other countries don't have. This is about protesting the fact that there is NOT "Liberty and Justice for All". It is not supposed to be just for some of the people.


We have a POTUS who does not understand at least half the people in this country, nor do they feel at least respected by him. Many people are not only afraid of what he might do next, they are afraid to walk or drive down the street in their hometown, for fear of being stopped, misunderstood, accused of something and/or shot.


As a white woman who is not afraid to go anywhere, any neighborhood, I find it appalling that some of my friends and neighbors have to watch their back when they leave their own house. Have to pray they make it safely through their activities of daily living. Have to be extra careful not to do a moving violation or have a broken taillight, so that they don't potentially end up dead. Imagine that!


We do not need a POTUS in a Bully Pulpit judging and condemning people he never met or talked to. We need lines of communication to open up. We need mutual respect. We need less rhetoric and threats and more asking questions of the other, more trying to clarify what is not understood, more DE-ESCALATION, and less John Wayne bravado. We need a mindset of conflict resolution, cooperation and an agenda to create peace. This can only come through communication and understanding, acceptance and tolerance.


Some of you may not believe it, but we are close to joining Galactic Civilization. We are close to Disclosure, and learning about the Secret space Program. If you wonder where all the money goes or why we don't have decent affordable healthcare in this country, look no further than the black ops programs run with your tax dollars. Not to mention the TRILLIONS that have gone missing since 9/11. Too bad our education system is not so great... people are not taught to think critically, not taught to keep an open mind and consider that anything might be possible. Not taught to look deeper at an issue, not taught to consider the viewpoint of the other, and learn from it. Not taught to think for themselves or to Question Authority.


I urge you all (myself included) to awaken and take stock of what matters to you. Do not accept somebody else's version of "What Happened" just because you like them. Use your gut instincts and look deeper at ALL the players involved, seen and behind the scenes, not just the usual suspects. More than anything, understand that we are evolving, our DNA is upgrading as it responds to electromagnetic light pulses from our Sun. The Sun itself is changing from a yellow star to a white star, which should be obvious, because the quality of light has changed in recent years. If you are observant, you will have already noticed. We are moving from a mind-centered consciousness to a heart-centered consciousness. This is important, as it will open us up to create potential solutions and connection.


If we don't strive to wake up, there will be more disasters and trauma to shake us out of complacency. Yet even the weather can respond to our thoughts and intentions, because we are Co-Creators in this world. We are collectively shifting from 3D to 5D, and our thoughts tend to manifest more quickly than they used to. So it is very important to keep the faith, elevate your thoughts, keep your vibration high with clean eating, pure water (we are 98% water!), movement, large doses of nature to decompress, introspection, meditation, and positive interaction with others. We are all in this together. We are taught to believe in limitation. But That's Illusion. We are far more capable of creating solutions to long-standing problems than we realized.  So let's persevere and go all in!



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