One of the lasting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and our catastrophically incompetent response to it is the decrease in trust in public health experts and their advice.
The media has repeatedly warned about the dangers of “doing your own research,” or not blindly following whatever those experts claimed. Despite the long list of examples of those same scientists either purposefully misleading the public, for instance: Anthony Fauci and his efforts to downplay US government involvement in gain-of-function research under his leadership, or getting major policy decisions completely wrong, the assumption has long been that subject matter health researchers are essentially infallible.
When revisiting some of the most important and influential research on major policies like mask mandates, it’s easy to see why those institutions no longer deserve the reverence they’ve been enthusiastically handed by their media partners.
One such study came at the earliest time period of the pandemic, and was used to inform and create masking policy for months and even years to come.
And a closer look at it shows how uniquely absurd and insane this research was in actuality.
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