Masks are for protection of everyone else except the wearer...................
Big Brother wants you to wear a face mask.
Be a good little robot and comply, or else.
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One city where a mask requirement was enforced most stringently during the Spanish Flu was San Francisco. There, the Head of Public Health, Dr. William Hassler, instituted one of the strictest mandates in the country and many of his modern-day emulators point to his efforts with approval, saying with authority that this method is how they successfully fought the Spanish Flu in San Francisco.
The truth is not quite so simple, as this excerpt from Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from The Plague of Athens to AIDS, by Samuel Kline Cohn (Oxford University Press, 2018) demonstrates...
‘The entire exercise is a good example of the government and the media being completely wrong but refusing to concede.’
the primary driver of this nonsense is the medical community itself, playing out its God complex; if you really want get irritated, go on FB and read posts by young females nurses shaming people who question the efficacy of masks...
I’m an anesthetist and have worn a mask in the operating room for 18 years
I couldn’t agree with you more: masks are useless to stop viral transmission and are actually harmful
I prefer my O2 intake un-impeded. Or I might have cause to utter the phrase: “I CAIN’T BREEVE!” JS.
“Lincoln Moses and Frederick Mostellar long ago suggested that public policy be organized as experiments so that we might learn of its effectiveness, or lack thereof, and avoid successive failures.”
I was a WSO in the USAF. We had to practice for chemical/biological warfare and many of our buildings had elaborate cleaning stations. If I had ever told an inspector (possibly you?) that I’d just wear a bandana instead, I’d have been squashed like a bug!
Try to imagine this coming in over the loudspeakers:
“The airfield has come under biological attack! Put on a bandana and return to your duties!”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Happy 1st anniversary of “15 days to slow the spread!”
Come take a look at the journey we’ve been on this glorious past year.
Most people are either going to be vaccinated. Or will have gotten the virus and survived just fine by spring so there will be herd immunity. Masks will not be needed (they never really were except for the elderly and sick perhaps, as the virus is 99.98% survivable for. Most folks)
A simple mouthwash with a certain ingredient is capable of rendering the virus innefecfive at causing illness in Under 30 seconds. Colgate total mouthwash is one with the Ingredient. And it is effective for up to 6 hours even after brushing teeth or eating. This simple ingredient likely would have been very effective at stopping transfer of virus through breathing sneezing coughing, and would have protected the others who also used the wash,, in A room, even if some virus did manage to escape through sneezing or whatever.
And you wouldn’t have to worry about touching your face like you do with masks. As the ingredient is in the mouth and will stop the virus from going any further should you happen to touch face before washing hands guess what they took off the shelves immediately right at the beggining? A nasal spray with the same ingredient in It- to study, you know
Fortunately they did not remove the mouthwash
Does it work? Quite possibly, tests show that it renders the virus incapable of infecting in under 30 seconds, and it coats the mouths where most get the virus from, and likely is much more effective than masks ever could be considering how jnnefectively most people use them
Excellent article.
I delved into the math of the latest paper offered by the CDC. It’s very inconclusive. They don’t publish enough actual data to confirm their analysis.
Masks have some value to protect say the elderly making quick grocery store raids once a week or so.
Their effectiveness goes down as exposure time rises.