The Real Reason for Masks

Laurie Garrett's 2018 Position on Masks at National Academy of Medicine medical conference – a fascinating keynote address given by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
“There's only a couple of countries that have ever really done large-scale studies to try and figure out what might work Japan it may not surprise you as one of them. And they, in one of their large studies, they basically showed that the masks, it seemed like the major efficacy of a mask, is that it causes alarm in the other person. And so you stay away from each other.

And that's what I think happened with SARS. When I was in the SARS epidemic, I saw everywhere, all over Asia, people started wearing these masks. And it is alarming when you walk down the street and everybody coming towards you has a mask on. You definitely do social distancing. You definitely, it's just a gut thing, but did the mask really help them? Did the mask keep the virus out? Almost certainly not, if they, if the virus was in there around their face, the mask would not have made the difference.”

Clip taken from The Dan Bongino Show – May 10, 2022 - Ep. 1765 The War On Election Integrity Is Heating Up - The Dan Bongino Show
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