Received a complaint from a twat who said that I was wrong on the show last week to say that mask wearing during covid made no difference. I reply publicly as I think it’s important. I stand by what I said, mask wearers and mask mandates made no difference. A 2024 study of 51 countries examined COVID case growth before and after mask mandates. It found no statistically significant average reduction in case-growth rates overall. The 2023 Cochrane review of randomised trials concluded that wearing medical or surgical masks in the community probably made little or no difference to influenza-like illness or laboratory-confirmed influenza and COVID outcomes. The Danish randomised trial, involving