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Considering the fact that the White House is once again pushing masking for the unvaxxed, I thought I’d toss this information out there.  The people doing this study took information from 67 other studies during flu outbreaks (if you’ll recall, magically the flu disappeared during the covid years).

From the Cochrane Library:

Medical or surgical masks

Seven studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no mask, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu‐like illness (9 studies; 3507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3005 people). Unwanted effects were rarely reported, but included discomfort.

N95/P2 respirators

Four studies were in healthcare workers, and one small study was in the community. Compared with wearing medical or surgical masks, wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (5 studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu‐like illness (5 studies; 8407 people) or respiratory illness (3 studies; 7799 people). Unwanted effects were not well reported; discomfort was mentioned.

From the study it actually looks like hand hygiene made more of a difference than face diapers ever could or did.  This review looked at data from studies prior to the covid years, which, to my mind, makes the results more valid since the scientific method went out of the window at that time.