Posted on 09/14/2020 4:25:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m not anti-mask, per se. There, I said it. If you’ve been reading my rants, er, columns on the topic these past few months, you might get another idea though, and I understand that. It certainly SEEMS like I’m anti-mask, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that was the case. That doesn’t mean that I like wearing them, of course. They’re uncomfortable and stifling and, frankly, disgusting. Even so, I WOULD wear them, when necessary, if the arguments the mask-proponents used to con almost the entire world into accepting and even mandating the practice were actually, well, true. Ah, but there’s the rub, right? In fact, precious little of what these idiots say is ever true.
Remember back in May and June when they said, “Hey, if everyone would just wear masks for a few weeks, it’ll all be over and we can go back to normal!” Remember that? Remember those three hairdressers using masks and COVID not spreading at all, or something, then blue state policymakers and national retailers and restaurants using that “evidence” along with a few model-based ‘studies’ to demand that every human from ages two and above wear a moist cloth diaper on his or her face, both indoors and outdoors, to “stop the spread” of a virus that poses very little harm to the vast majority of those who contract it? Remember them telling us it was only temporary, that masks had the power to stop COVID-19 right in its tracks and save grandma?
Except, neither the masks nor the lockdown measures every really stopped COVID-19 in its tracks, did they? Nope, the virus just kept right on virusing, as highly-contagious respiratory viruses are prone to do. You can lock down and delay the inevitable, but as soon as you peek your nose out the virus will be waiting. You can mask up ‘till the cows come home, but even the CDC now admits that, with or without masks, 15 minutes of close contact with an infected person will spread the virus. And given the fact that it has ALWAYS taken 15 minutes of close contact with an infected person to spread the virus, that means masks are generally useless.
But yes, if what they said was true, if COVID-19 could have been eliminated or even severely curbed with a few weeks of mask-wearing, even I would have happily put up with it. Because, indeed, they would have been right about mask-wearing being a “small inconvenience” if we had a foreseeable future endgame and could see actual results behind the practice.
No cheating though! Farr’s Law being what it is, the numbers were going to come down anyway when a certain threshold of infectivity was met. Thankfully, with coronavirus, that threshold seems to be somewhere between 15 and 25 percent. New York and New Jersey are prime examples. Anyone who thinks masks somehow did the trick in those places have clearly never heard of herd immunity. Even California’s cases (yes, I know this is a #casedemic, not a pandemic at this point) are on the way down, but the climb toward the July-August peak happened long after masks were mandated statewide in mid-June. If anything, early July should have been the virus’ swan-song in California, but it was just ramping up. Almost anywhere universal masking has been implemented, from Peru to Columbia to Greece to the UK, has been followed by significant case spikes. As a prime example, this graph that shows the trend since the U.K. made face masks mandatory indoors is nothing short of stunning.
Call me skeptical, but in order to put a face muzzle on me and have me at least mildly compliant about it, you’d have to show me some actual successes, where mask use was implemented and the virus almost immediately went down. In fact, if the “experts” who have suddenly, after years of science proving otherwise, deemed that forced public masking can indeed stop an airborne respiratory virus - if those “experts” could point to actual, timely successes, it’s hard to imagine most everyone not being on board for that ride. Frankly, if mask-wearing did stop the disease in its tracks, as we were promised months ago, you can bet your house the mask-loving media would have been shouting the examples from the rooftops. We’d be seeing red state vs blue state comparisons everywhere since red states have the most non-compliance and/or most lenient mask mandates. Instead, we’re simply told condescendingly that “masks work,” “science shows masks work,” and other unproven nonsense, as if they think if they say it enough times we’ll believe it.
Bottom line: If the powers-that-be were correct, the areas that took a softer approach to lockdowns and masks would all be suffering immensely, while those with hard lockdowns and mandatory masks would be done with this. Right? So, why is maskless, lockdownless Sweden almost back to normal while Peru, India, Brazil, California and Columbia still languish? Why does this epic Twitter thread, which shows country after country performing horribly after they implemented mask mandates, even exist?
Nah, I’m here to tell you the ‘emperor’ is just as stark-naked as almost everyone’s faces should be. It’s past time we ditched the masks, practiced some basic, common-sense social distancing, and lived our lives as free human beings.
I’ll leave you with three things. First of all, what Anders Tegnell managed to do in Sweden is nothing short of extraordinary. This Financial Times story is well worth the read. Second, this piece last week by Daniel Horowitz is by far the best anti-mask article I’ve run across. Few things out there have the power to actually change minds, but this one does. Be sure to check it out and share it far and wide. Finally, we all know Twitter can be a cesspit, but what if you could follow over 100 fantastic COVID truth-teller accounts all at once by simply following an already-created list? Please consider joining the over 1,400 people already following my brand-new COVID ‘Team Reality’ list. Getting and staying informed, then amplifying and interacting with these voices is a great first step in the long-haul fight against corona fascism.
“You either have the spirit of fear, or you have the spirit of faith.”
Or, referring to that same verse (II Tim. 1:7), “You either have the spirit of fear, or you have AN UN-SANE MIND.”
I think you done and answered your own question, slick!
Hey, they worked in Sweden.
No, wait. They didn’t require them. In fact, they didn’t lockdown and for them it’s history.
Theory is that air systems in schools, restaurants, public places can spread the virus. Someone has already made filters and also something like a light scan you go through.
I love how protesters get a pass in the media, about not being selfish as they wear masks. But, they don’t maintain that 6 ft social distancing that we are mandated to do. Shoulder to shoulder, screaming in peoples faces through their mask not an inch from that person. Oh and you are to watch “not to scream, talk loudly” to help not spread COVID as well.
Since medical professional working at their trade have worn masks for decades, there is a reason. The masks protect the patient and the medic
For a journalist to write such an article proves he is balthering about a subject in which he has no real knowledge. He is purveying garbage to earn his daily bread
Sweden is different country then US. My ex sister in law daughter and husband live in Sweden. They are very healthy people. Not obese, walk everywhere as it costs 2K to apply for a drivers license, they are not huggy people, they eat moose, venison and no processed food with banned chemicals in them unlike US.
There is no common sense for a low IQ population. A virus is .12 microns in size. Most people have no idea what a micron is. A smoke particle is FOUR TIMES that size. If you can smell smoke through your mask, then you can , 4 times more easily, intake a virus particle than the smoke particle. Wearing a mask to prevent inhaling a virus is like putting up a chain link fence to keep your yard free of mosquitos. The mask is a sign If how successfully our “education system” has dumbed down the masses.
Masks DO NOT STOP SUB-MICROSCOPIC VIRUSES. They are meant to stop bigger germs and bacteria.
The best defense against the virus is to wash your hands often and keep them out of your nose, eyes and mouth.
I have not worn a mask since this pandemic started. If a store requires it to go in, I either don't go there or I go in without a mask. The grocery, drugstore and hardware stores I frequent the most, all require them by order of the county but they don't enforce the mask requirement. The one little restaurant I go to, requires masks by the county order to enter but not when you get inside to eat. Now that is the stupidest rule yet. Doesn't accomplish anything. The county commissioners who ordered the mandate are all elected lay people who don't know masks from a hole in the ground.
If masks worked, we wouldn't have had to stop people from working, to stop businesses from remaining open, to close schools, to cancel everything in our society and culture, etc., etc., etc.
The masks are a tool of the ego-driven, power hungry "experts" like the fraud Dr. Fauci and his ilk and are meant to control people and not protect them.
Again, the simple question, if masks worked, why didn't they?
Tell me how much you know about first order differential equations because the issue is illustrated with a simple math problem, the same math that keeps reactors safe and makes nuclear bombs explode.
This morning a local reporter was reporting on the hurricane from a deserted beach.....wearing a mask pulled down below her chin. Usually they wear them with one side hanging off their ear which, to me, makes them look incredibly stupid.
This virus has a TCID50 - all viruses which infect animals do (I don't do plant virology, so I don't know about plants).
The TCID50 for SARS CoV 2 is obviously less than measles or chicken pox. How much less remains to be seen.
So, anything that reduces the number of infectious particles that get out of someone else's respiratory tract and into yours will "work" if it reduces your uptake to below the Minimum Infectious Dose (MID), for which the TCID50 is a reasonable surrogate.
The particle science people who generate <0.3 micron particles in rotating drums and blow them through various materials make a very strong case that masks don't "work". They made the same case for H1N1 flu, which led CDC to persist in the foolish recommendation that patient care for H1N1 required N95 masks when that was not true of any other form of influenza and proved not to be true for H1N1 either.
Every European country that adopted universal masking experienced a prompt and sharp decline in new SARS CoV 2 infections.
This is not an argument that we should or shouldn't pay the price of ANY intervention to prevent these infections, which, as many here point out, are usually mild.
But the claim that "masks don't work" is not true.
Libertarian conservatives don’t like them
And prescient to the point of being nearly prophetic.
They are stupid. Otherwise they would have a real job
Well all I know is that you don’t need to wear a mask while playing high school and college football. Seems that youngsters grabbing, tackling, piling on each others sweaty bodies are deemed safe practices while the coaches on the sidelines and the few fans in the stands are required to wear masks. Meanwhile, everyone else in my state, Kentucky, is required to wear a mask in public places. Unless you’re part of a ‘protest’, that is. I’m in permanent ‘protest’ mode until this mask insanity ends.
Even they know that viruses are too small for a mask to have any protective effect.
Masks are worthless to stop sub-microscopic viruses, even the ones medical people wear.
I have been watching Australian Rules Football as that appears to be the only televised sport with no BLM wokeness going on.
They are playing in front of socially distanced crowds.
Nobody on the field nor in the stadium appears to be wearing a mask.
I guess masks only work in the Northern Hemisphere. Because down there the virus travels in a counterclockwise swirl or something.
They are very healthy people. Not obese, walk everywhere...
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