Posted on 10/31/2020 2:49:10 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/trump-biden-mask-mandate.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fauci-mask-mandate/
Two peas in a pod - Biden calls for a national mask mandate (top link) and Fauci also calls for a national mask mandate (bottom link).
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I have begun the process of removing my family from businesses, organizations and sports teams who have adopted Covid policies stricter than those required by law. We have happily found alternatives, one of them run by a veteran who doesn’t care about mask rules.
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I am sick of the “stay safe” crowd. I don’t tell anyone to “stay safe”. Seems better if people said “risk it” instead of “stay safe”.
I spoke too soon.
/gloom, doom and crapaganda
full of warnings masks are essential. however...
30 Oct: Daily Mail: Is YOUR mask safe? New research shows some stop just seven per cent of bacteria amid ‘alarming’ variations between best and worst face coverings (and reveals why you should wash yours)
Which? tests highlighted differences among the face masks currently available
Masks available from Asda, John Lewis, Boots, Ocado and Asos were tested
Researchers studied how well they filter bacteria and how breathable they are
Best were NEQI reusable mask and Bags of Ethics Great British Designer mask
Etiquette, Termin8 Lightweight Breathable, and Asda White mask among worst
By AMIE GORDON and SEAN POULTER
A health alert has been issued over some reusable facemasks with evidence that some filter out just 7per cent of harmful bacteria.
The warning comes from consumer experts at Which? after a survey of 15 masks which suggest some offer little or no protection.
Three of the masks, available online and in the high street, were so flimsy that they have been issued with a ‘Don’t Buy’ rating...
Asda has pulled its face covering from sale as a result of the findings...
Masks with multiple layers were much more effective than single layer versions at filtering particles.
However, the fact they had more layers meant it was more difficult to breathe easily through them...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8896379/Is-mask-safe-New-research-shows-stop-just-seven-cent-bacteria.html
That would be great if I actually wore the damn things.
Haven’t been “properly muzzled” this whole time, been out running around even when there were very few *to* run and wearing a half ass piece of stretch lace that filters absolutely nothing.
ALL the “masks” jack up your risk of bacterial pneumonia so No. Thanks.
31 Oct: MSN: Daily Mail: Sunetra Gupta reveals how crisis has been ruthlessly weaponised
by Professor Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Her fee for this article has been donated to The Childhood Trust, a charity which fights to alleviate the impact of child poverty.
Lockdown is a blunt, indiscriminate policy that forces the poorest and most vulnerable people to bear the brunt of the fight against coronavirus. As an infectious diseases epidemiologist, I believe there has to be a better way...
I expected debate and disagreement about our ideas, published as the Great Barrington Declaration...
But I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not just from members of the public online but from journalists and academics, has horrified me...
Of course, I do have deeply held political ideals — ones that I would describe as inherently Left-wing. I would not, it is fair to say, normally align myself with the Daily Mail...
At the heart of our proposal is the recognition that mass lockdowns cause enormous damage.
We are already seeing how current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.
The results — to name just a few — include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health.
Such pitfalls of national lockdowns must not be ignored, especially when it is the working class and younger members of society who carry the heaviest burden...
I was also deeply concerned that lockdowns only delay the inevitable spread of the virus. Indeed, we believe that a better way forward would be to target protective measures at specific vulnerable groups, such as the elderly in care homes...
I am certainly not pretending I have all the answers, but these issues need to be discussed and thrashed out thoroughly.
That is why I have found it so frustrating how, in recent weeks, proponents of lockdown policies have seemed intent on shutting down debate rather than promoting reasoned discussion...
This refusal to cherish the value of the scientific method strikes at the heart of everything I, as a scientist, hold dear. To me, the reasoned exchange of ideas is the basis of civilised society.
So I was left stunned after being invited on to a mid-morning radio programme recently, only for a producer to warn me minutes before we went on air that I was not to mention the Great Barrington Declaration. The producer repeated the warning and indicated that this was an instruction from a senior broadcasting executive.
I demanded an explanation and, with seconds to go, was told that the public wouldn’t be familiar with the meaning of the phrase ‘Great Barrington Declaration’.
And this was not an isolated experience. A few days later, another national radio station approached my office to set up an interview, then withdrew the invitation. They felt, on reflection, that giving airtime to me would ‘not be in the national interest’.
But the Great Barrington Declaration represents a heartfelt attempt by a group of academics with decades of experience in this field to limit the harm of lockdown. I cannot conceive how anyone can construe this as ‘against the national interest’.
Moreover, matters certainly are not helped by outlets such as The Guardian, which has repeatedly published opinion pieces making factually incorrect and scientifically flawed statements, as well as borderline defamatory comments about me, while refusing to give our side of the debate an opportunity to present our view.
I am surprised, given the importance of the issues at stake — not least the principle of fair, balanced journalism — that The Guardian would not want to present all the evidence to its readers. After all, how else are we to encourage proper, frank debate about the science?
On social media, meanwhile, much of the discourse has lacked any decorum whatsoever.
I have all but stopped using Twitter, but I am aware that a number of academics have taken to using it to make personal attacks on my character, while my work is dismissed as ‘pseudo- science’. Depressingly, our critics have also taken to ridiculing the Great Barrington Declaration as ‘fringe’ and ‘dangerous’...
Yet of all the criticisms flung at us, the one I find most upsetting is the accusation that we are indulging in ‘policy-based evidence-making’ — in other words, drumming up facts to fit our ideological agenda.
And that ideology, according to some, is one of Right-wing libertarian extremism.
According to Wikipedia, for instance, the Great Barrington Declaration was funded by a Right-wing think-tank with links to climate-change deniers...
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/mindandbody/sunetra-gupta-reveals-how-crisis-has-been-ruthlessly-weaponised/ar-BB1ayBze?ocid=msedgdhp
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I am sick of the “stay safe” crowd. I don’t tell anyone to “stay safe”. Seems better if people said “risk it” instead of “stay safe”.
Makes sense to me brother.
Think back to January of this year... none of us imagined that we would have to be taking such measures, and holding these thoughts... So in Flubro & Flubra spirit: "Risk it!!"
(And thanks again, for your diligent work each day in bringing us Flubros & Flubras this daily spot of sanity!!)
Geez, don’t say that.
I’ve had enough of that over there —>
And sadly, it is succeeding beyond their rosiest expectations... thanks in large part to a segment of our society that seems to relish living in fear, and having gubmint do the "thinking" for them....
Our ‘Daily Devotional’ from Anthony Goebbels...shut your damn piehole, dude.
;D
Said it was a plot from day one.
The WuFluCoup and people fell for it.
Been arguing that with my mom and to a lesser extent, my husband, this whole time.
For months I did her shopping for her and would drop it off on her porch where she left it until I waved bye to her as she she looked out the window, and she could take everything and “sanitize it”.
[this was SO surrealistic]
My mom has finally started to “question things”.
ugh
No, sh*t. My wife told her 'Good...I think we're done here.', and wheeled her cart away.
Just say NO to tyranny.
I pray that God take his mighty hand, slaps it hard across the face of humanity and commands, "Snap out of it! Awaken from your fear and stop hurting one another. Put your cowardice behind you and get on with the gift of life and with the gift of Liberty I have bestowed on each and every one of you!"
Eight long months living in abject fear of a virus and of each other is beyond ridiculous ... it is truly madness!
The RAT party hamstrung Tea Party groups from gaining non profit status, limiting their influence in the 2012 elections.
Would a party this cynical seek to hamstring small business people, limiting their ability to financially support PDJT?
You go, girl!!
I’d stomp around with you except I’m using a walker for a while, so there’ll be no stomping. When I’m able to get out, maybe I’ll sashay around stores — naked.
“My wife claimed medical exemption.”
I thought that if I were to be approached by a mask Nazi, my medical issue would be “KMA Syndrome”.
Pissant local county mayors here in East Tennessee just extended mask mandates AGAIN, but not just for a few weeks or even a month this time...mandates were extended until the END of December...another TWO months! Pissant REPUBLICAN Governor Bill Lee extended their authority, and they took advantage of it. Bastards. REPUBLICAN bastards all.
Liar, globalist shill.
Fortunately, HIPPA laws preclude disclosure. :-)
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