Gov. J.B. Pritzker arrives in a mask to speak at the Thompson Center during the coronavirus pandemic, April 19, 2020. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

“Illinois Has No Science Behind Its School Masking Mandate”

Here, in one place, you can find the science that confirms that masks achieve little if anything to fight Covid.

Mark Glennon, the founder of Wirepoints, for once and for all gathers what you need to educate yourself about the uselessness of masks and the dangers they pose.

For one thing, it unveils the flaws in the CDC’s “guidance” that Pritzker and others cite as if it were the final word and complete justification for a policy that justifies you and you and you to wear masks. Pritzker has eased up on his mask mandate, but not for school children, where masks have damaged learning, socialization and other necessary childhood progressions.

That a government agency would keep this “guidance” unchanged in the face of science and a growing public anger says a lot about its politicalization. And a lot about how it no longer serves the public interest. A house-cleaning is required.

Glennon points out that 39 states have done away with mask mandates, but leave it to Pritzker and the blind Democrats who cling to the masking falsehoods to lead Illinois into a basket of deplorable states.

Glennon serves up a useful bibliography of studies and reports that apparently have escaped the governor’s office.

How the CDC abandoned science–TabletThe Case Against Masks at Schools – The AtlanticMasking: A Careful Review of the Evidence – AEIRMore than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms – Brownstone InstituteDid Mask Mandates Work? The Data Is In … And the Answer Is ‘No’ – BloombergPolitics Getting Bad For Those Using Children As Human Covid Shields – WirepointsOmicron shows Illinois masks and mandates aren’t working: A comparison of Illinois versus its neighbors – WirepointsPolitics Getting Bad For Those Using Children As Human Covid Shields – WirepointsEvidence of Mask-Induced Brain Fog – Brownstone InstituteMeet Dr. Emily Landon: The Face of UChicago’s Anti-Science COVID Decrees – Chicago ThinkerThat Study of Face Masks Does Not Show What the CDC Claims – ReasonNearly 40 percent of all Illinois COVID deaths in the last month are breakthroughs. What gives? – WirepointsWhy Americans Can’t Trust the CDC’s COVID-19 Advice – ReasonAfter 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school – NPRAmericans in 39 states aren’t subjected to a mask mandate. Why are Illinoisans? – WirepointsThe CDC Director’s Slippery Response to Criticism of School Mask Mandates Further Undermines Her Agency’s Credibility – ReasonGrading the Governors – Who locked down and who opened? – Brownstone Institute