Posted on 03/23/2021 6:07:41 AM PDT by karpov
Joe Biden has counted on face masks to control the Covid-19 pandemic. On his first day in office, the president issued an executive order requiring masks on federal property and called for their widespread use for 100 days. More recently, the Centers for Disease Control has mandated masks on airplanes and mass transit, though most airlines and transit systems already require them.
These recommendations mark the latest step in a thorough reversal of the pre-pandemic public-health consensus that masks are useless or counterproductive. Yet the evidence underlying this reversal turns out to be quite weak. Widespread use of masks throughout the United States and Europe has failed to stop massive pandemic waves in the fall and winter. Preliminary signs also suggest that mask mandates may be causing considerable harm. Several state governments have recently rescinded their mask mandates, and a look at the science suggests that more should consider following.
Researchers have investigated masks for disease protection since the discovery, in the late nineteenth century, that many respiratory pathogens spread in droplets of exhaled moisture that follow ballistic paths extending a few yards. It seemed logical that a device to block relatively large droplets could also block smaller pathogens, both protecting wearers and serving as “source control,” stopping them from infecting others.
Later research has shown, however, that respiratory droplets obey a more complicated set of physical laws. In particular, once exhaled, they shrink rapidly through evaporation. One widely cited model estimates that droplets with diameters smaller than about 100 microns (a micron is a thousandth of a millimeter) evaporate before reaching the ground, leaving their contents as long-lasting aerosols; particles smaller than about five microns can stay aloft indefinitely and travel beyond droplet range.
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if masks worked why where “vaccines” needed?
if they worked (and they dont) why does the prevalence increase?
if they worked why are they not collected and burnt?
About 20 years ago there was a hit song called “There is No Arizona” about a woman coming to terms with the fact that her lover has run off and will not be sending for her to join him for a wonderful life off in distant Arizona.
Well, I think we need to come to terms that There is No Science.
The analogy I’ve heard is that masks are like using a chain link fence to stop a sand storm. Even if that overstates it (and it might not), places without mask mandates seem to be doing okay. There should be data by now.
Heh. I was in a country band in Seattle. My daughter was the singer and we did that song. It was actually one of my favorites. Great lyrics. And you’re right.
This just as the Oregon Dept of Health decides to double down and make the mask mandate permanent:
https://osha.oregon.gov/OSHARules/proposed/2021/text-chngs-covid19-public-health-emergency.pdf
Well, Michigan and Sweden are fairly similar on most metrics. There’s a good one.
> Well, I think we need to come to terms that There is No Science. <
Along those lines, I’ve come to hate the phrases “the science suggests” and “follow the science”. It doesn’t matter who uses it. Because as you noted, there no longer is science. It’s now just another political tool.
The states may rescind, like Abbott did in Texas, but most businesses aren’t. Signs are still up about “MANDATORY” mask requirements for stores and restaurants.
To heck with the science!
It makes the sheep feel secure. It makes them feel like they are part of something. It reminds them that they are submissive to the State. They adore it.
The ruling class loves the power. And the smarter among them have financial investments in the continued mask display.
It’s not going away for a long time.
The sad reality is that politics infested science many moons ago.
They’re not letting go of the control any time soon. They have been able to shut down businesses, jail rebels, and destroy Trump’s economy. They are letting non-Americans come in to the country while we are busy counting Covid positivity rates. They are planning a massive transfer of money to undeserving people by taking money from productive people, and will soon provide the justification for that: a summer of rioting.
I’d argue that the most important aspect is that there’s no data to suggest the masks work at all. If there was it’d be plastered everywhere. Since we’ve all been wearing them, regardless of the linear increase in testing, the cases went up exponentially.
The Michigan HHS claim (TV commercials) a 70% reduction of the virus being spread by wearing masks but provide zero sources of the claim. Even the boxes that contain masks state they don’t protect against COVID-19! This is all an exercise in COMPLIANCE TO THE COLLECTIVE. The masks don’t do sh*t except brainwash people into believing they’re ‘saving lives’ and to do what they’re told, regardless of the Constitution.
The fact that the virus is everywhere regardless of a mask policy is evidence enough, they do nothing. The suggestion of wearing two masks is pure comedy, you have to ask how far does the idiocy go? Apparently, the masses will do anything to gain the comfort of believing that they’re a little safer - and give up their Constitutional rights in the process.
Heaven forbid letting citizens do anything as they see fit. That would set a precedent that could be applied to all sorts of things. Imagine, letting citizens do anything they see fit with the money they earn. We can't have that. It is best government cranks down control on simple things like breathing so much worse does not occur.
The mask mandates and shutdowns have been about freedom and liberty from the very beginning. It has nothing to do with good public health policy or science.
They were just to get you trained. We passed the test.
We don’t need data, studies, and experts to know that the masks leak around the edges, that the fabric is too coarse to filter viruses, and that they hinder breathing.
Science is a process to learn the truth. The Science is a political term used to disguise liberal propaganda and lies.
if masks worked why where “vaccines” needed?
As for vaccines, they would always be of use for the ‘transition’ people, such as the aides at nursing homes, or at hospitals.
The suggestion of wearing two masks is pure comedy
Half the people in the country died from the chinese virus after they opened up their states. Wait they did not?
The democrats took advantage and created a plandemic.
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