Posted on 10/06/2021 4:24:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The left manipulates language to mean the opposite of what the common meaning is. It is just convoluted lying.
Psychology, mostly.
Masks have gone the way of a pair of socks. Something that will never go away and to most people, even more necessary. I used to joke about the idiot jogging, driving, walking alone wearing a mask. It’s now the norm and isn’t funny. It’s always been pathetic but now depressingly so.
The up-side to this is that these masked sheep are doing many things to jeopardize their own health. Survival of the fittest may come in to play in the long term.
Best article on masks seem to date! Thank you.
My in laws are convinced that they have to wear a mask out in the open walking down the sidewalk with nobody around. This isn’t about science, it’s about fear.
I look at masks as a kind of virtue signaling that they are "with" the agenda, much like Germans walking around with swastika armbands in the late '30s.
There has been tremendous flooding of the Yellow river in China.
There are videos of a subway being flooded. The passengers were told to stay on the car. The phones came out and recorded the hapless subway riders clutching the straps overhead as the water was up to shoulder level..
They were all still wearing their masks as they were about to drown
This isn’t about science, it’s about fear.
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They just want to be protected from the germs that are out
flying around or being scattered by the wind. Yep, they want
mask but to heck with gloves for touching all the same things
that previous people have touched.
——Here in New York, the City——
The City State of New York is no longer America having effectively seceded and not recognizing federal lawn
Bkmk
No. Next question.
We were told “if we all wear masks we’ll crush this bug”. Things only got worse. That I STILL see 50% of people wearing them just goes to show how powerful the fear mongering is.
They presented cases showing coughing and sneezing, how it greatly reduces the spread of droplets. NOBODY has said anything now we know COVID is an aerosol, it has nothing to do with droplets - only breathing and the masks do nothing.
What they DO accomplish is creating an acutely contaminated surface that you touch 50 times a day, adjusting them, taking them on & off constantly, etc. - then you TOUCH everything, contaminating everything.
At best they become a net zero difference. If we had any sort of honest media this would have been questioned out of existence long ago. That we still see the opposite, especially the push for kids to continue wearing them in schools is criminal.
A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention tripled mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections.. Sounds promising, right?
And it's a big study: 178,288 individuals in the intervention group and 163,838 individuals in the control group.
The intervention increased proper mask-wearing from 13.3% in control villages to 42.3% in treatment village. The payoff? Based on blood samples, post-masking symptomatic seroprevalence for the masked group was 0.68% vs for the control group. 0.76% - a Mask Efficacy of 10%.
....except, look at the massive Big Brother intrusion/oversight:
To emphasize the importance of mask-wearing, we prepared a brief video of notable public figures discussing why, how, and when to wear a mask. The video was shown to each house- hold during the mask distribution visit and featured the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, the head of the Imam Training Academy, and the national cricket star Shakib Al Hasan. During the distribution visit, households also received a brochure based on WHO materials depicting proper mask-wearing.
We implemented a basic set of interventions in all treatment villages, and cross-randomize additional intervention elements in randomly chosen subsets of treatment villages to investigate whether those have any additional impact on mask-wearing. The basic intervention package con- sists of five main elements:
1. One-time mask distribution and promotion at households.
2. Mask distribution in markets on 3-6 days per week.
3.Mask distribution at mosques on three Fridays during the first four weeks of the intervention.
4. Mask promotion in public spaces and markets where non-mask wearers were encouraged to wear masks (weekly or biweekly).
5. Role-modeling and advocacy by local leaders, including imams discussing the importance of mask-wearing at Friday prayers using a scripted speech provided by the research team.
Households were randomized to receive messages emphasizingei ther altruism or self-protection.
Households were randomized to receive twice-weekly text reminders or not. As mentioned above, the text message saturation was randomly varied to 0%, 50%, or 100% of all villagers receiving texts, and in the 50%
villages, the specific households that received the texts was also random. 3. Households were randomized to making a verbal commitment to be a mask-wearing house- hold (all adults in the household promise to wear a mask when they are outside and around other people) or not. This experiment was conducted in a third set of villages where there was no public signage commitment.
In short...wow...it took a MASSIVE propaganda push employing religious leaders and social shaming and frequent reminders and interventions via text etc, to treble mask wearing and that only lowered the incidence of infection by 10%.
So yes....masking accompanies a (barely) lower infection rate, but only if accompanied by Soviet-style reminders of what is required of you comrade.
I don't think this was what these researchers wanted to be the take-away, but as Christopher Walken would say...
Political Science
This study sponsored by WHO/CDC back in April 2015 showed that medical masks stopped less than half of infected aerosol particles, and cloth masks <5%.
The medical establishment has known for years that there is no science behind masks — yet, if any so-called scientists can find a study that does — they ignore all other data.
Masks are a scam. Wanna guess who $$$ benefits from their being pushed?
A Cluster Randomised Trial of Cloth Masks Compared With Medical Masks in Healthcare Workers
C Raina MacIntyre 1 , Holly Seale 1 , Tham Chi Dung 2 , Nguyen Tran Hien 2 , Phan Thi Nga 2 , Abrar Ahmad Chughtai 1 , Bayzidur Rahman 1 , Dominic E Dwyer 3 , Quanyi Wang 4
“Is There Any “Science” Behind Covid Mask Mandates?”
From a particular point of view, no. But according to the MAYO Clinic, face masks combined with other preventive measures, such as getting vaccinated, frequent hand-washing and physical distancing, can help SLOW spread of the virus.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
The example of continuing scientific research, as they have no answer, are the masks. An N95 FFR is a type of respirator which removes particles from the air that are breathed through it. These respirators filter out at least 95% of very small (0.3 micron) particles. The diameter of the virus has been found to range between 50 nm to 140 nm. A nanometer is 1000 times smaller than a micrometer. So, that eliminates the best thing out there from success if the virus gets on it and can be inhaled.
I see the whole thing as putting out fires using oil. It never puts out the fire, factually perpetuates it, but it has the appearance of pouring something on it that people can assume through trial and error, there may be an answer out there somewhere to protect the public. But as the research is being disproved and changed, all we are doing is eliminating failed efforts, not going forward as we are unable to stay with the speed, change, and spread of the virus.
They drug out the term “herd immunity.” They, at the same time, created vaccines designed to help the body fight the virus. How do you reach their proposition of herd immunity if the virus changes and the vaccines are now being discovered to have a three to five month shelf life and require boosters that may not be any more effective than the original vaccine?
Viruses have been around for billions of years and seem to return on occasion. And now man learned how to create and change them along with watching them change and re-evaluating the lack of success of combatting them after they have turned Frankenstein loose into the countryside. Shots don’t work, face masks don’t work, and science doesn’t work...so all we’ve realistically got is hiding in your cave. I thought we had evolved past that. Guess not.
wy69
No science behind it. It is the mask of obedience.
Why Masks Don’t Work - “Careful Consideration Of Our Common Concerns” - Dr. Ted Noel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MKzKAzKCNk
No. It says right there on the box that it doesn’t protect against viruses.
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