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ASTONISHING COVID AUSTRALIA DATA SHOWS MASK MANDATES DON’T WORK

Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand OVERTAKE Australia despite SUPER strict mandates: 'They don't matter'

  • Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand have overtaken Australia per capita

  • Both still have very strict mandates in place unlike Australia where rules eased

  • Death rates in New Zealand are also higher than in Australia despite masks

  • Data shared by infectious diseases professor in post saying masks 'don't matter'

  • It's the latest damning data to counter calls for a Covid clampdown in Australia

By KEVIN AIRS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

New data shows Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates.

Masks are worn everywhere in the densely-populated Asian city while New Zealanders are forced to wear them in all indoor public places, such as shopping centres and libraries.

But both now have higher case numbers per million than Australia, where compulsory mask rules have been abandoned in most indoor settings.

Since Australian mandates began to ease last October, per capita case numbers in Singapore exceeded, matched or lagged behind Australia, before rising ahead again. 

In New Zealand, case numbers were six weeks behind Australia's Omicron wave in January, but since February they have matched or exceeded Australia. 

Death rates in New Zealand also overtook Australia per capita at the start of March, despite the Kiwis being on the highest code red mask mandate restrictions - and have stayed higher ever since.

In Singapore, death rates dropped below Australia in April after racing ahead between October and Christmas, but are now surging wildly and are set to overtake Australia once more.

The new figures come as it was revealed the median age of those dying from Covid in Australia is now 83 years old, the same age as the nation's average life expectancy.

The federal health department's latest Covid report explodes the myths being used to drive Australian authorities to re-introduce mask mandates and continue having Covid cases isolate for seven days. 

The data comes as St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney said they have just 'one or two' patients in ICU - with top doctors confirming the winter wave is far less severe than those to have previously hit Australia.

'We certainly don't have many,' confirmed a hospital spokesman on Monday.

'It's not presenting so much on the very acute side, where patients need ventilation.'

The vast majority of those who have caught Covid are under 50, with 3,121,953 cases so far. Just 293 people under 50 have died of the virus since the pandemic began.

The statistics show that since Australia's mass vaccination rollout began, those under 50 face a less than one in 10,000 chance of dying from Covid.

'The median age of all those infected is 31 ... [but] the median age of those who died is 83,' the latest federal health department 'Coronavirus At A Glance' report states. 

Australia's average life expectancy is 82.9 years of age.

Most killed by Covid were men over 70 and women over 80, accounting for 7,585 deaths out of the nation's total virus death toll of 10,582 as of 3pm on Friday.

And even if Covid breaks out among elderly frail residents in aged care centres, more than 95 per cent of those infected will survive.

Of the 63,875 who caught Covid in Australian aged care centres, 60,771 recovered, with less than 1 in 20 of infected residents dying, for a tragic toll of 3,104. 

NSW Premier Dom Perrottet admitted on Monday that the current flu wave was now a bigger threat than Covid.

'At the moment, the current strand of influenza is more severe than the current strands of COVID,' he told 2GB. 

'As we move through the next phase of the pandemic, we need to balance up the competing health issues.'

You can go to the link to see all sorts of fancy charts that illustrate the point, but the futility of these face theater mandates has been known since the farce began in 2020. Known, but suppressed by our duplicitous public health services and the media. Face mask rules are, and have always been about control of the masses, not the disease.

remember these? Your helpful CDC

UPDATE: More from Issues and Insights:

Some data show that fatalities have risen for three straight weeks and cases for four going back to late June, and hospitalizations have been growing. But what is the relevance of the numbers? How many are in the hospital for other reasons with COVID-19 and how many are there because they are sick from the virus? Same with deaths. How many of those who tragically passed on recently died from the disease, and how many simply had it when they died from something else?

Here’s a hint:

Of those who are admitted, they’re 90% of the time not admitted due to COVID. Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU. …  It is just not the same pandemic as it was, despite all the media hype to the contrary. A lot of people have bad colds, is what we’re seeing.

Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center

Now, on to the point regarding the futility of mask mandates:

  • Media outlet SFGATE compared the spread of the virus in Alameda County, which returned to forced mask use in early June (before later dropping it), to the nearby counties, which didn’t. The verdict? “Regional case data provides no discernible evidence that the (Alameda County) rule, which was lifted June 25, succeeded” in slowing the spread. The rises and declines in Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Francisco counties trended right along with those in Alameda.

  • New cases per 100,000 in states with no mask mandates have tracked almost perfectly in tandem with those that required masks. In fact, maskaholic states spiked much higher during the Omicron scare than the free states, the former peaking dangerously close to 300 cases per 100,000, the latter at just over 225. This isn’t unique to the U.S., either. International comparisons produce the same results.

  • Even before the coronavirus pandemic it was understood that masking was not effective against respiratory viruses. Looking at 14 randomized controlled trials, some of which were conducted before the current hysteria arrived in 2020, Jeffrey H. Anderson, at one time director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that three suggested, but did not provide, “any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful.” Meanwhile, “the other 11 suggest that masks are either useless – whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone – or actually counterproductive.”