Posted on 12/07/2020 6:18:57 PM PST by karpov
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For all the talk about following science, the authorities—and much of the citizenry—can’t resist the primal intuition that a pandemic can be quelled only through public penance. Consider two strategies for dealing with the Covid-19 virus: urge the public to spend time outside in the sun to build up their vitamin D, and to take supplements of the vitamin, repeatedly demonstrated to protect against viral infection; or shut down most businesses, deprive children of classroom education, and order everyone to stay home, a strategy never previously tested and yet to prove effective.
Which strategy would you try first? If you chose the vitamin D, you have no future in the public-health establishment. While a few researchers are touting the vitamin’s potential and advocating government programs to distribute the supplements during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control can’t bring itself even to suggest that people take the pills on their own. In its Covid-19 guidelines, the CDC declares that “there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of vitamin D.”
Somehow, though, the “insufficient data” problem disappeared when it came to lockdowns and mask mandates. Before the pandemic, the official expert consensus was against those measures, but the consensus was promptly discarded in the hope that these sacrifices might help. The evidence since then could easily be called insufficient, given the lack of randomized studies and the inconvenient data showing that places with lockdowns didn’t fare any better than the places without strict measures. And given what has emerged about the minuscule rate of transmission in outdoor settings, you could certainly say there’s insufficient evidence to order people to stay inside their homes or to mandate masks outdoors.
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Great article!!
Pandemic Penitents: Lockdowns are more about faith megalomania than science.
Megalomania
[ˌmeɡələˈmānēə]
NOUN
obsession with the exercise of power, especially in the domination of others.
synonyms:
delusions of grandeur · obsessionalism · grandiosity · grandioseness · self-importance · egotism · conceit · conceitedness · folie de grandeur
delusion about one's own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic or paranoid disorder).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tierney_(journalist)
Tierney described his TierneyLab blog as being “guided by two founding principles”:
Just because an idea appeals to a lot of people doesn't mean it's wrong.
But that's a good working theory.
The About section of the TierneyLab blog started with, “John Tierney always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through”.
Yes most of us with a brain already figured out we’re being ran by a globalist cult.
No science , just true believers and true scam artists. Real Jim Jones type shit.
It is a virus...it spreads...Lockdown and masks just slow the process..
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