This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, September 21st, 2022. Happy hump day everyone! Let’s start today’s show, with a little on this day in history! 
 

On this day in history, September 21st, 1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
September 21st, 1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major John André plans to West Point
September 21st, 1784 Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser becomes the 1st successful daily newspaper in the United States
1823 Moroni first appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
1827 According to Joseph Smith Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon
1937 J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' is published by George Allen and Unwin in London
1938 British politician Winston Churchill condemns Germany's Adolf Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting
1970 "Monday Night Football" created by Roone Arledge, premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21

 
And that was, on this day in history for September 21st. 
 
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https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/20/study-finds-mask-made-no-difference-in-classrooms/
 
Study Reveals Masking Kids In School Made ‘No Significant Difference’ In Stopping COVID Spread.
 
The use of face masks in classrooms made “no significant difference” in COVID-19 infection rates, according to a new study.
 
A cohort of researchers from several universities and hospitals in Spain came to the conclusion by analyzing COVID-19 transmission rates, age, and the mandated use of face masks in classrooms across the region of Catalonia.
 
The study – “Unravelling the Role of the Mandatory use of Face Covering Masks for the Control of SARS-CoV-2 in Schools: a Quasi-Experimental Study Nested in a Population-Based Cohort in Catalonia (Spain)” – compiled data from 1,907 schools with a total of 599,314 pupils during the first term of the 2021 academic year. It was included in August’s edition of the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, which is a part of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group. 
 
Though COVID-19 variants such as Omicron occurred outside of the timeframe of the study, researchers maintain it is “unlikely that the effectiveness of the mask mandate measure will increase with a more transmissible variant.”
 
“We analysed routinely collected health data to compare the incidence of SARS-CoV-2, secondary attack rates and the effective reproductive number among school children, comparing those without mandatory face covering masks (FCM) and those with FCM during the first term of the school year 2021–2022, to assess the effect of FCM mandates on SARS-CoV-2 transmission within schools,” explains a summary of the work.
 
Researchers focused on comparing children in the last year of preschool (P5) and the first year of primary education, as the younger group had no face mask mandate, whereas the older group did.
 
“The main findings of the study show no significa