When it comes to facemasks, most people think they absolutely work. Clearly they work, were being forced to wear them, right? But that isn't the case. Even on the box of the blue medical masks, the manufacturer stated that these will not protect you or prevent you from catching a coronavirus.
All of the previous science in the past two decades has demonstrated that there is no significant effect of wearing a facemask to prevent or reduce the spread of a virus or being infected. It's only in the past year, with a political agenda, that papers have been released that attempt to claim that they work. None of these papers are a clinical trial, contrasted to the only one that exists from years ago demonstrated that facemasks don't stop the spread of a virus. Most of them are spin-doctored meta-analysis or attempts to poorly look at a correlation between facemask use and a reduction in the fraudulent PCR test cases.
Facemasks are not regulated outside of medical use, because the ones that are being proposed to be used outside of medical use have never been used in such a way. That's why all these facemasks were never regulated before, because they were never intended to be used as they are for allegedly stopping the spread of a virus, or preventing infections.
So how did authorities like the FDA make people believe that cloth masks actually work, and make people believe that they are authorized for use in preventing infections or the spread of a virus? Well, they did the same thing as I did for the experimental injections, they issued emergency use authorizations (EUAs).
It's not that something actually works when you issue an EUA. It hasn't been demonstrated to work, but your giving it the appearance that it works through an emergency authorization.
Without the EUA, they couldn't ask people to use them as they claim to say they work, because they don't work as they claim to save a work. They never have. But under an EUA, they can bring things into their banner of authority and say that they can be used when the normally wouldn't be, because they don't actually work as they claim they do. The authorities can claim they are allowed to be used, even though without the EUA they wouldn't be allowed to make such claims.
This was the level of science, or non-science, Orphic science, used to promote and mandate the wearing of facemasks in a so-called state of emergency that isn't actually a real state of emergency. When you look at the data within infection fatality rate of 0.15%, like the flu, the alleged pandemic around the novel coronavirus is not an emergency situation. All they did was make it an emergency use, and change the claim that they work when none of the science changed to prove that they work.
The FDA claims that cloth face coverings, a.k.a. cloth facemasks, are regulated "when they are marketed for medical purposes". Yet none of the cloth facemasks people are using are actually regulated. Anyone can go take some cloth and build a facemask for themselves, or sell it to other people. That is not regulation. That is not standardization. Anyone can make anything according to whatever standards they want.
A cloth facemask that you can buy at a gas station is not regulated for medical purposes. Only the masks that are made for medical personnel in the medical industry are the ones that are regulated. And even then, they aren't necessarily proven to be effective in stopping the spread of a virus or infections.
The only thing the FDA can say is that masks may, maybe, help prevent the spread of virus, or limit exposure to droplets. Not that they actually do. Not that they reduce the risk or chances by a certain percentage. They are just using rhetoric to manipulate people's perception of efficacy. They can't say they do, because that would be clearly false. Who knows, it 'may' do it, they don't have to prove it, but just suggest that it might be an outcome without any evidence.
When it comes to any facemask, there are health issues with respect to reducing oxygen intake and increasing carbon dioxide intake. So someone might ask whether these masks are safe to wear. But instead of actually answering that question in the first sentence of an FAQ, the FDA just reiterates the possible, might be, may be quality of the masks to allegedly reduce the chance of spreading covid-19. That wasn't the question, but they want to make it seem "safe" by claiming they make you safer from the threat of covid. LOL.
Further, the only mention FDA cleared surgical masks and respirators, not face cloth masks that you can buy anywhere, that aren't used by healthcare personnel for years, and that are not regulated. But this whole FAQ section from the FDA makes you think that any of these masks work as they claim they do, and that face cloth masks work and are regulated. It's such a huge deception.
Additionally, healthcare personnel have not worn facemasks of any kind for hours and hours day after day. Extended procedures are limited and not continually ongoing. Right now we have people wearing facemasks for hours outside of medical procedures. The worst of which is forcing children to wear these useless masks the whole duration they are at school when they aren't even the ones who are at risk. There is more risk of children dying from the flu and covid.
They can create an emergency use authorization to use things they wouldn't normally use, which gives them a broad leeway to make claims for the efficacy of things that they wouldn't be allowed to claim otherwise. What changed between before and alleged pandemic, and during an alleged pandemic? Nothing. These facemasks did not work before, and they don't magically work now simply because the FDA issues and EUA to promote their use.