Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks

by Alex Berenson

The fight didn’t end there. Some hospitals kept trying to make nurses wear masks. The nurses objected again. Again they won. In a September 6, 2018 decision, arbitrator William Kaplan agreed with Hayes’s ruling. In fact, Kaplan went further than Hayes, calling the evidence in favor of mask mandates “insufficient, inadequate, and completely unpersuasive.” Later in his ruling, he wrote: The preponderance of the masking evidence is compelling – surgical and procedural masks are extremely limited in terms of source control: they do not prevent the transmission of the influenza virus. (https://www.ona.org/wp-content/uploads/ona_kaplanarbitrationdecision_vaccinateormask_stmichaelsoha_20180906.pdf) These arbitrators were not anti-mask. They were chosen for their neutrality. But both looked at the evidence and reached the same conclusion. The decisions came in the context of the flu, not the coronavirus. But all the evidence we have suggests that both viruses, which are roughly the same size, are transmitted in the same way.