The fact that Austria has now overtaken Sweden in terms of total covid mortality really means that almost every single government intervention in Austria \u2013 and almost everywhere else \u2013 has been entirely ineffective from an epidemiological and medical perspective, while having caused almost unprecedented social and economic harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In particular, it means that lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, N95\/FFP2 mask mandates,\u00a0mass PCR testing and \u201ccontact tracing\u201d, as well as \u201cvaccine passports\u201d, have been entirely\u00a0ineffective and unjustified\u00a0<\/strong>as interventions to \u201ccombat the pandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of note, this is not just \u201cpost-hoc knowledge\u201d<\/strong>: with the exception of school closures (which are effective against influenza), it had long been known<\/a> that all of these \u201cinterventions\u201d, including masks and contact tracing, are ineffective against respiratory virus epidemics. Concerning masks, the question is not if they are effective in theory or in some lab experiment, but if they make any difference in the real world \u2013 and the answer is no<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n