Masks

Masks articles provide critical analysis and commentary on mandates, masking policies, scientific research, public health impacts, and effects on social life, child development, and personal liberty — challenging claims of efficacy and exposing overreach.

We examine key issues like ineffectiveness, harms to children, pandemic-era mandates, public health failures, institutional hubris, narrative control, and calls to reject forced mandates in favor of evidence-based choices and freedom.

All articles from Brownstone Institute are machine translated into multiple languages to reach global readers, promote international open dialogue on science and policy, and support resistance to unnecessary restrictions.

When Believing the Health Authorities Requires Denying Obvious Realities

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With every excuse we accept, with every denial we echo, every misguided action we support, we entangle ourselves more and more deeply; by each step, we take a higher stake in the narrative, and the higher it gets, the more fiercely we defend our parallel set of truths; the harder it becomes to break away and accept reality.

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Legacy Media Pushes the Mask Mandate: The New Zealand Case 

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This media are not the arbiters of truth. They are tamed and compliant, and overly-dependent on opinion-based Op-eds while lacking resources, media freedom guidelines, and a public interest culture to ensure that they sniff out hypocrisy, contradiction and the missives of power.

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CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study

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The marque top level position that the CDC once held in the US and globally no longer exists. The credibility has fallen dramatically and this has a whole lot to do with COVID and how its leadership functioned in deceiving the nation by withholding important COVID information, repeatedly. 

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White House Disinformation about Kids and Covid

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Jha has repeatedly spread misinformation about masks while overtly promoting vaccine passports and verification, and last summer claimed that “unvaccinated, unmasked folks” are the drivers of transmission, while ignoring that cases surged in highly masked and vaccinated areas like San Francisco:

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The Point of Masks: To Cause Alarm

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The reason American kids were forced to cover their faces for six hours every day was “that it causes alarm in the other person and so you stay away from each other… But did the mask really help them? Did the mask keep the virus out? Almost certainly not.” Garrett always knew, but continues to support muzzling them anyway.

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