July 25, 2024 - 10:00am

The German government determined within six months of implementing a mask requirement that there was no evidence to support the intervention, but did not make that information known to the public, according to a new report.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) files, long held from public view, read, “There is no evidence for the use of FFP2 masks outside of occupational safety,” according to German outlet Berliner Zeitung. Nonetheless, some masking requirements remained in effect throughout the country until early 2023.

The RKI, a research institute run by the German government, helped guide the government’s public health response to Covid. Its 2,500-page Covid protocols were released following a lengthy legal battle with a small media outlet, Multipolar.

The files noted that the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” narrative was incorrect, but government leaders continued to blame the unvaccinated for the spread of Covid in public comments after that conclusion was reached.

The RKI also knew as early as January 2020 that Covid did not pose a serious threat to children, according to Berliner Zeitung, but the government still enforced school closures.

The development mirrors Covid-related developments in the US, where new testimony and the release of government documents have revealed that top government officials withheld information from the public about the development of Covid guidelines and the US funding of gain of function research in Wuhan. Anthony Fauci told Congress in June that the six-feet social distancing rule “sort of just appeared” and was not based on scientific evidence.

Germany saw 192 deaths per 100,000 people, considerably lower than the EU’s 264, but only slightly below Sweden’s 209, according to Financial Times data — despite the much more lax approach Sweden took to lockdowns and masking. There’s been a groundswell of opposition to masking mandates in the years since they first came into effect, as evidence mounts against their usefulness.

“If the institute set up specifically to provide expert advice itself questioned many of the central Corona measures, where did the unconditional will to implement them come from, sometimes much stronger or longer than in other countries?” the report read.