Posted on 06/29/2020 6:04:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Author’s note: The below is the Op-Ed that was accepted to USAToday on June 24. They deleted key phrases/paragraphs for their print paper and then they refused to print it at all online.
It is clear to me as a physician-lawyer that the disinformation about both Covid-19 and the Constitution has caused us to turn a medical issue into a legal crisis.
The scientific usefulness of a mask has been so aggressively overstated, and the foundational importance of the Constitution has been so aggressively understated, that we have normalized people screaming obscenities at each other while hiking.
The Covid virus was supposed to be contained in the kind of lab where people wear astronaut suits and go through triple sealed doors. It is a con of massive proportion to assert that now, having escaped those environs, a bandana will magically do the trick.
After all, size matters.
The pore size of cloth face coverings range from ~ 20-100 microns. The Covid virus is 200-1000x smaller than that, at 0.1 microns. Putting up a chain link fence will not keep out a mosquito. Even the most esteemed medical journals admit their purpose is to calm anxiety. “Expanded masking protocols’ greatest contribution may be to reduce the transmission of anxiety …”
Of course, by knowledge or common sense observation, most Americans already know that masking everyone is superstition. But unlike privately carrying a lucky charm, mandating facial coverings requires the consent of the governed.
Many cultures mandate clothing that appears totally irrational to outsiders. Never have those cultures pretended that there is a scientific basis for their clothing requirement. Their leaders rule, and their citizens accept, that their choice of clothing is due to religious or cultural preference.
Not wearing a mask is not mere “personal choice” like deciding between a head covering or a t-shirt. It is a flashpoint for being a free human being who has consented to be governed but has not consented to be ruled. We do not consent to a masked America, because that is a fundamental change in American society, culture, norms, and rights.
People who are apathetic toward their own liberty cannot eliminate Constitutional rights for those who are not. This is not the first (or last) time that people who believe in superstition are screaming the loudest. The Constitution exists precisely to protect all people during times of mass hysteria.
The mask has become the most visible symbol of #socialconditioning to Americans determined to preserve individual freedom. Thus far most Americans have continued to give their consent to be governed. But you are trying our patience.
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Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, is a board certified emergency physician. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before attending Stanford University Law School to earn her Juris Doctorate degree. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York. Dr. Gold worked in Washington D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the Labor & Human Resources Committee. She works as an emergency physician on the frontlines whether or not there is a pandemic. Her clinical work serves all Americans: from urban-inner city, to suburban, to the IHS. Her legal work has focused on conflicts between hospitals and insurers. She writes on a number of policy issues relating to law and medicine. She always leads with the facts. Read more at The Gold Opinion.
And float right through that hole in the mask 200-1000 times bigger than they are.
why would you say that? i’m not fearful of covid or catching it.
i’ve been following a supplemental protocol for years before covid even was a twinkle in bill gates’ and fauxci’s eyes.
BTW, It won't be over until the day after they've succeeded in defeating Trump.
I can believe that. I wore a mask into Costco and was winded by the time I pushed the cart back to my car. The only difference was the mask. It definitely puts a strain on breathing and people who have difficulty already, due to allergies, asthma, or other conditions should think twice about making it more laborious to breathe.
In NJ everybody wears a mask in the store - they are such good little obedient people! And there are so many karens!
These obedient people make it enforceabe!
There will be no herd immunity with such herd mentality!
Surprise - people are dining indoor without obeying the dictator’s biblical words. Results - phase 2 reopening for everybody is postponed indefinitely!
See! murphy’s words are to be obeyed or you suffer his wrath!
Very convenient for the anarchists/communists isn't it?
None of the above. In the case of the church choir, singing. In the case of the salon, masks stopped the spread from talking.
As for 20% less oxygen, I can believe it. Wearing a mask is not pleasant and I have to consciously breathe deeper all the time.
Sure. We don't know how much infection was aerosol and how much droplets. But we do know that the church choir was widely spaced, no touching, large room, no masks with 80%+ infection. So aerosols are certainly possible. We also know the salon with close spacing and masks had no infections from two infected employees. No evidence of aersols there. But the humidity was probably higher.
One thing that is pretty certain about aerosols is that they do not cause infection at high temperatures and humidity. Higher than 85 at almost any humidity or higher than 70 at higher humidity.
Definitely when a mask is worn by a person walking outside, alone, and not passing anyone within 15 or 20 feet. I just smile when I pass such a person from across a street. Is such a person terrified, brainwashed or just woke?
Yes. They're not mutually exclusive.
Very convenient for patriots too.
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