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The Miserable Pseudo-Science Behind Face Masks, Social Distancing And Contact Tracing
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| JUNE 19, 2020
| ATRICK WOOD
Posted on 06/19/2020 1:40:57 PM PDT by Yosemitest
The Miserable Pseudo-Science Behind Face Masks, Social Distancing And Contact Tracing
Once upon a time, there was something called science. It included the discovery of truth about nature, the elements, the universe, etc. It was practiced by honest and accountable practitioners called scientists and engineers. They often invented cool new things as a result of their studies, but generally they had no primal urge to use their knowledge to dominate other people, groups or even entire societies.
Then certain other scientists and engineers rose up and made a discovery of their own. If true science was ever-so-slightly skewed and engineering disciplines were applied to society at large, then they could indeed use their knowledge to dominate and control other people, groups, entire societies or even, heaven forbid, the entire planet.
The first group pursued science. The second group pursued pseudo-science.
Merriam-Webster defines pseudo-science as a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific.
The Oxford dictionary clarifies by stating, a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
Pseudo-science quickly emerged as the principal domain of Technocrats, but they soon found that scientific debate with those promoting real science was most inconvenient to their social engineering goals.
The solution was simple: claim that their own pseudo-science was indeed the real science, and then refuse debate by excluding all other voices to the contrary.
In the context of pseudo-science, this report will examine the three primary tools of fighting COVID-19:face masks, social distancing and contact tracing.
Face masks
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) website plainly states that cloth face masks Will not protect the wearer against airborne transmissible infectious agents due to loose fit and lack of seal or inadequate filtration.
But, what about surgical masks ?
OHSA is clear here also that they will not protect the wearer against airborne transmissible infectious agents due to loose fit and lack of seal or inadequate filtration.
But then right under these statements, OSHA furiously backpedaled by adding an FAQ section on COVID-19 directly underneath and stated,
OSHA generally recommends that employers encourage workers to wear face coverings at work.
Face coverings are intended to prevent wearers who have Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) without knowing it (i.e., those who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic) from spreading potentially infectious respiratory droplets to others. This is known as source control.
Consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation for all people to wear cloth face coverings when in public and around other people, wearing cloth face coverings, if appropriate for the work environment and job tasks, conserves other types of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as surgical masks, for healthcare settings where such equipment is needed most.
So, wearing a face mask cannot protect you from getting COVID, but it is supposedly able to keep someone else from getting it from you ?
OSHA is speaking out of both sides of its mouth.
What it calls source control likely puts the real motive out in the open: since you are the source, its about controlling YOU.
There is no true scientific rationale for anyone but the sick and medical workers to wear masks.
The truly healthy have no business wearing a mask, period.
But, what about asymptomatic carriers?
On June 8, 2020, Maria Van Herkhove, PhD., head of the World Health Organizations emerging diseases and zoonosis unit released a compilation of a number of contact tracing programs from various nations and plainly stated From the data we have, it still seems to be very rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.
This writer hates to think what happened to Dr. Herkhove overnight at the hands of her WHO handlers, because the next day she also furiously backpedaled and stated I used the phrase very rare, and I think that thats misunderstanding to state that asymptomatic transmission globally is very rare.
I was referring to a small subset of studies.
It is clear that Dr. Herkhoves first statement that naively repeated the clear facts of the matter did not follow the WHOs justification for non-infectious people to wear masks.
In fact, the entire mask wearing narrative hangs on the single pseudo-scientific idea that asymptomatic people can spread the virus.
In a recent Technocracy News article authored by highly-respected neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD titled Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy, he concluded, there is insufficient evidence that wearing a mask of any kind can have a significant impact in preventing the spread of this virus. (Blaylock represents real science.)
Nevertheless, in the face of clear evidence of the worthlessness of face masks for preventing disease,
- States and municipalities are mandating that face masks be worn by all citizens when outside their home
- Large and small companies are forcing their employees to wear masks
- People at large are scared to death to not wear a face mask for fear of getting sick or being mask-shamed by others if they take it off.
A Matter of Oxygen
Face masks lower the percentage of oxygen available for inhaling.
Normal fresh air contains 20.95% oxygen.
OSHA defines an oxygen deficient atmosphere as an atmosphere with an oxygen content below 19.5% by volume.
The reason we breath air is only for our lungs to harvest the oxygen it contains so that we dont suffocate and die.
OSHA documents the effects of the first level of oxygen deficiency from 16% to 19.5%:
At concentrations of 16 to 19.5 percent, workers engaged in any form of exertion can rapidly become symptomatic as their tissues fail to obtain the oxygen necessary to function properly (Rom, W., Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 2nd ed.; Little, Brown; Boston, 1992).
Increased breathing rates, accelerated heartbeat, and impaired thinking or coordination occur more quickly in an oxygen-deficient environment.
Even a momentary loss of coordination may be devastating to a worker if it occurs while the worker is performing a potentially dangerous activity, such as climbing a ladder.
This writer has already encountered several store employees, forced to wear a face mask during work hours, who exhibit one or more of these exact symptoms.
When asked if they relate their symptoms to wearing the mask, every single one has emphatically said Yes!.
Every employer and government entity that mandates the wearing of face masks are required to do two things: first, they must provide atmospheric testing to each person to measure average oxygen levels inside the mask when it is being worn
and second, if oxygen is below 19.5%, they must be provided with an oxygen enriched breathing system.
To this writers knowledge, there has been zero testing of oxygen levels anywhere in the country even though it is plainly clear that many people are experiencing symptoms of oxygen deficiency.
Many state-level politicians are now mandating the wearing of face masks for all citizens in public places.
That they have fallen prey to pseudo-science is now putting entire populations at risk for physical harm that has nothing to do with the COVID-19 virus.
Social Distancing
Adding to the fear of contagion, people across the nation are driven to practice social distancing, or staying 6 feet apart at all times.
This is practiced to excess in almost every commercial establishment with markers taped or painted on the floor and shopping isles converted into one-way travel only.
Yet, two real scientists at the University of Oxford in Britain, Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, wrote in The Telegraph (UK) recently thatthe two-metre rule has no basis in science.
Their article was titled There is no scientific evidence to support the disastrous two-metre rule.
According to these scientists,
The influential Lancet review provided evidence from 172 studies in support of physical distancing of one metre or more.
This might sound impressive, but all the studies were retrospective and suffer from biases that undermine the reliability of their findings.
Recall bias arises in research when participants do not remember previous events accurately,
and it is problematic when studies look back in time at how people behaved, including how closely they stood from others.
More concerning was that only five of the 172 studies reported specifically on Covid exposure and proximity with infection.
These studies included a total of merely 477 patients, with just 26 actual cases of infection.
In only one study was a specific distance measure reported: came within six feet of the index patient.
The result showed no effect of distance on contracting Covid.
Heneghan and Jefferson further noted,
On further independent inspection of 15 studies included in the review, we found multiple inconsistencies in the data, numerical mistakes and unsound methods in 13 of them.
When assumptions over distance were made, we could not replicate any of them.
This is the hallmark of modern pseudo-science:inconsistencies in the data, numerical mistakes, unsound methods and inability to replicate results.
What is the real purpose of social distancing ?
It certainly is not to curtail contagion.
The only other possibility is to curtail economic activity and prevent social cohesion.
Humans are social beings, after all, and lack of close proximity leads to depression, anxiety and even serious health consequences.
Contact Tracing
Contact tracing is an established practice in modern medicine.
It is useful for the early stages of serious infectious diseases like Ebola, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.
Every credible expert on contact tracing says that it is effective only up to the point of mass distribution.
In other words, during the early stages of a contagion or a slow moving or very serious disease.
In the case of COVID-19, the horse has already left the barn.
Except to harass people, there is nothing useful that contact tracing can accomplish.
Yet, almost every state in America is implementing a wide-ranging contact tracing program that may ultimately employ some 300,000 tracers.
The Center for Disease Control website states thatContact tracing will be conducted for close contacts (any individual within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes) of laboratory-confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients.
Furthermore, CDC complete definition of close contact is,
Someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated.
If you are exposed to such a person, your personal information will be collected and you will be contacted by the tracer to be instructed to quarantine for up to two weeks.
The infected person could have been mistaken about having contact with you.
They could be someone who just wants to get you in trouble. If you live in Washington state, where all restaurants are now required to record the contact information of every patron, you might not have a clue who was infected, but you will be quarantined anyway.
Now, the CDCs declaration of 6 feet above takes us back to social distancing, where we just learned above that there is no effect of distance on contracting COVID in the first place.
Thus, find that contact tracing misses the mark on two main points: first, the virus is too widespread throughout the population to make tracing effective
and second, the criteria of six feet for defining a contact is bogus.
So, why are governors, mayors and health departments ramping up for a nationwide exercise in obtrusive contact tracing ?
Again, pursuing a path of pseudo-science, the intended outcome is control over people.
Conclusion
The American public is being spoon-fed a steady diet of pseudo-science in order to justify the wearing of face masks, social distancing and contact tracing.
Yet, the actual science points in the polar opposite direction.
Furthermore, those who try to present the real science are shamed, ridiculed and bullied for having such narrow-minded views.
This is a clear sign of Technocrats-at-work.
Instead, these are the ones who should be exposed, shamed and ridiculed.
In sum, these dangerous and destructive policies are designed to curtail economic activity, break down social cohesion and control people.
Moreover, they fit the original mission statement of Technocracy as far back as 1938:
Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population
It is highly doubtful that most state and local leaders understand the lack of real and verified science behind their actions and mandates.
Nevertheless, they are implementing policies that are destructive to our economic system, harmful to our personal health and ruinous to personal liberty.
This writer suggests that you print multiple copies of this report and deliver it to every political leader, every commercial establishment, all family and friends, etc.
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Patrick Wood is editor of Technocracy News & Trends,
and a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy.
He is the author of Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order (2018),
Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015)
and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Professor Antony C. Sutton.
Wood remains a leading expert on the elitist Trilateral Commission, their policies and achievements in creating their self-proclaimed New International Economic Order which is the essence of Sustainable Development and Technocracy on a global scale.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19; mask; oxygen
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To: kaehurowing
Any reliable links?
Seems to me that filtering effects are similar to that of hardware cloth to keep out the mosquitoes, Or is there some mask magic I don’t understand?.
To: Yosemitest
In Hong Kong, after SARS, anybody with a sniffle wears a mask. It helps, I guess, to control sneeze droplets, but the thing is, it tells everybody else you’re nor well and they give you a bit of space in a very crowded place.
That’s the attitude that should be adopted here.
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posted on
06/19/2020 2:30:08 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
To: redcatcherb412
most android phones have one built in.
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posted on
06/19/2020 2:34:05 PM PDT
by
exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: kaehurowing
Even the M95 only stops particles down to about 5 microns. The virus is 250 times smaller. Masks do accumulate bacteria so you can concentrate them and re-breath them. Masks do lower O2 levels which eventually affects the brain. It can be said that long term wearing of masks will starve the brain of O2 and make you more stupid. Maybe that is the goal of the supporters of masks; leads to idiocracy.
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posted on
06/19/2020 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: kaehurowing
To: kaehurowing
“If mask wearing is required and at least 80% of people wear masks, transmission of the virus is halted... “
I just read that paper you linked. It is all theoretical and bench tests. As in, “cough at the petei dish” type experiments. No real world evidence. But the link I posted in #17 gives over a dozen peer reviewer papers that did actual, real world experiments with real people, sick and not, and counted who else got sick. Results? Masks don’t work to prevent people from getting sick. Bench tests and theories are fine, but when they don’t work in real life, you must discount them. When theories fail in real life, the theory is wrong. That’s science.
And as for Asia, Hubei province study in China where everyone wore masks showed... Drumroll... Masks don’t work. They didn’t prevent further transmission. And everyone wore them. In China, there is pretty good compliance. Or jail.
So stop with the propaganda. Masks don’t work, and we’re tired of fear mongering virtue signalling control freaks telling everyone what to do.
To: LibertyWoman
Taiwan
Japan
Vietnam
S.Korea
Hong Kong
Most of China (although new outbreak in Beijing)
To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Perhaps some of you will listen and survive the pandemic. The rest have made their choice.
To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Masks dont work Masks can help if properly worn and donned/doffed to train people to keep their hands away from their mouth and nose.
It's all about percentages. Masks are not 100% effective. They are not designed to me.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:03:47 PM PDT
by
Fury
(.)
To: LibertyWoman
Kaehurowingis incapable of posting the truth when it comes to masks. Don't waste your time reading about what Karin feels about masks. HeSheIt would destroy our country to make us wear masks 24/7.
Ignore HeSheIt, one day Jim will tell HeSheIt to stuff a sock in its mouth.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:07:47 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
( Can I trust that you and I will get out and vote for Trump, this November!)
To: kaehurowing
Uniform mask-wearing is the best measure to stop the spread of viruses like COVID.
—
A common piece of cloth will stop a virus which so small it cannot be seen in a regular microscope because it is smaller than the wavelength of light.
OK Karen.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:08:42 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: kaehurowing
Most of these aren’t “laws”...they are administrative edicts. The fascists act as if they are laws.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:14:06 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: kaehurowing
If mask wearing is required and at least 80% of people wear masks, transmission of the virus is halted....
How can you prove that?
The major flaw in the article you posted is that the author states that the asymptomatic spread the virus. The cdc now says that’s not the case. Thus for these people wearing a mask is irrelevant.
I will concede that a mask on a symptomatic person will impede droplets but these people should just stay home.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:14:49 PM PDT
by
Ceebass
(A man riding by on a galloping horse wouldn't notice)
To: kaehurowing
I agree the US is currently "out of control"... In pandering to the leftists who are pushing their violence and social justice BS.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:15:47 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: RJS1950
and that is if the N95 is fit appropriately and tested. The ones I see people wearing in the grocery store are not
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:19:25 PM PDT
by
Mom MD
To: kaehurowing
Do you believe anything that communist china says about anything? If so...I believe you could well be exceptionally naive.
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:20:01 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: kaehurowing
You do know the fatality rate among those who contract the disease is around 0.2% or less. Even if you get the disease you are overwhelmingly likely to survive the pandemic despite your dramatic statement. Even if you are a drama queen
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:22:19 PM PDT
by
Mom MD
To: Ceebass
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posted on
06/19/2020 3:23:00 PM PDT
by
Mom MD
To: Mom MD
To: Mom MD
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