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.
I understand that the dirty little secret about this whole thing is the most common comorbidity is obesity. Which is a serious problem on its own in the US.
I suggest to everybody they lose a few pounds, rather than force me to wear a mask. FWIW, I’m 6’1”and in 1997, weighed 245 lbs. I lost 55 lbs in 12 weeks on the prism diet. It changed my life. I’m 66 and the health benefits have stayed with me. Obesity kills more people than smoking, even without this virus.
I’m a bit of a fanatic on the subject now. And back in the 60’s and early 70’s, when I was in public school, we traveled around a lot (my dad was a contractor working at various military facilities around the western US). Every school I went to had maybe one - or two - fat kids and that was it. It was an anomaly. Nowadays, it is the normal condition for a huge portion of the student body.
When I moved to KY I saw the high school kids coming out of school one day and thought to myself, “Holy cow. Any HWP girl in this class has a leg up on the rest of the girls for finding a guy. Our culture is poisonous, and viruses like this just cull the herd of the weak.
Fortunately, that “weakness” is mostly old age - which gets us all one way or the other. And the reason so many or over reacting to this is that this is not the Christian nation it once was. For most, this life is all there is so they want to extend it at all costs. Forget the degradation in Quality. Just fear, fear, fear anything that even remotely might end it. And then force the rest of us to wear masks.
To quote Jordan Peterson: “I’m not doin’ it.”
And I don’t. I adhere to strict social distancing rules from way back: 18”
Yes, I know.
I used to be a libertarian.
They are so sure about EVERYTHING.
At least let people make up their own minds about what the data shows.
...contagious but asymptomatic which we are finding out now is BS.
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The information was available early on. Those of us saying detection is not infection and questioning asymptomatic transmission were condescended to, called names and in general, became cancellation targets, up to and including public assaults.
Just like questioning recycling, which everyone admits just makes them feel better about themselves, the self-esteem and peer-esteem buttons were hit hard and often.
Some of the fearbros have vanished. Some have switched topic. Others are hoping no one remembers. Still, they face themselves in the middle of the night and the flop sweat may keep them warm as they buy into whatever the next edict might be over the winter.
Masks prolong the scamdemic. Recycling costs more, creates more toxins and defiles the earth more than secure landfill disposal. We all need to eat a peck of dirt, encounter pathogens and create some solid waste before we die and it has always been thus.
If masks are stopping the most dangerous virus, how come there are no contaminated hazardous waste receptacles everywhere??
Where are people putting all that hazardous waste, from contaminated snot rage masks to wipes??
I am finally beginning to see face mask trash cans at the exit of my local grocery stores. I think they got tired of seeing so many on the ground in the parking lots.
That is a pretty cool site. I wish I could trust their death numbers since the CDC admited those numbers reflect people who died with CV19 rather than from it.
“Dead wrong”
Yes, correct —YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. You apparently did not read the article. Masks are not effective. Look at the chart in the Financial Times article and tell me that Sweden did not make the right decision! As one of the articles points out masks are, “all psychological, not physiological. .......fear spreads a lot faster than the virus.
You wear your face diaper if you honestly believe it is right. But, kindly don’t ask me to do the same.
To be clear, in late August, Governor Holcomb extended the mask mandate another month that he first implemented in late July.
My only problem is that if the Democrat opponent is elected, Indiana will be in even worse shape going into the future.
...filters and also something like a light scan you go through.
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About $100 on Amazon for a filter w/optional UV-C for 200 square feet. 55 watts + 5 watts for the light. I can see less smoke residue on surfaces, which I clean regularly, anyway.
As a smoker, I use one in my office. Occasionally, when windows are otherwise closed for weather reasons, I use ozone in the office and the filter out in the living room, if I am smoking there. Exhaust fans when necessary. Windows open if possible.
This is easily done, obvious and common sense. But it doesn’t inculcate fear or activate peer pressure, so it is ignored.
They might be smarter than you assume.
If I were inclined to voluntarily wear a mask I wouldn't take it off until I had a way to safely dispose if it and wash my hands immediately. If I couldn't do both those things, or if I didn't have a fresh mask to replace the one I just removed, I'd leave the dang thing on, too.
...if the Democrat opponent is elected, Indiana will be in even worse shape going into the future.
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How many Chicago refugees are in Indiana, especially NW Indiana?
Those are not CDC numbers.
There are lots, but I don’t have the numbers. My experience is anecdotal, but people have been fleeing Chicago and coming to Indianapolis for years. You can tell because they are big Chicago sports team fans.
So now they are increasing their chances of getting the WuFlu.
Wow, you’re really good at missing the point. And I’m not impressed by your reference to “first order differential equations”. I took three semesters of calculus in college, but it isn’t relevant to a discussion over whether face diapers are or are not effective or necessary.
The difference between a reactor going out of contral and being shut down is a difference .01% in exponentiation rates. That is why masks matter. It takes a very tiny difference in rates of spread to make a huge difference in outcomes.
I just had surgery in a hospital that “requires” masks on patients and staff. I took mine off as soon as I got to my room and only wore it when out in the common areas. No-one chided me or made any mention of it.
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