Posted on 04/12/2021 3:47:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most people probably think of epidemiologists as simply doctors who specialize in contagious illness, but that would be only part of the story. Indeed, rather than studying and finding cures for diseases, arguably the most important component of the field is increasingly being viewed as something else entirely - the molding of public behavior. This explains why so many who go into epidemiology hold undergraduate degrees in public health, which focuses on the social and behavioral sciences, instead of the more hard-core sciency stuff studied by their medical doctor peers, like biology or biochemistry.
So when epidemiologists like Dr. Anthony Fauci make pronouncements from on-high, one must always be aware of the motive behind their messaging - to get YOU to do what THEY tell you to do, purportedly in an effort to “stop the spread” of whatever contagion they are fighting. Except, if you do a deep dive into the nature of most of the world’s response to today’s particular disease du jour, COVID-19, you’ll see that little of it ever had to do with actual science or data. Instead, the bulk of it has focused on implementing and forcing the public to comply with certain non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), like lockdowns and masking, settled upon early on in the pandemic.
While discussing his epic bestseller “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History” with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, radio host Steve Deace described perhaps the most critical 11 days in recent U.S. history:
“On February 28 of last year, Fauci wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that when he analyzed the data for COVID-19, he thought it would be just about as bad as a pandemic-level flu,” said Deace. “And then 11 days later, he went to Congress and told everybody that this was gonna be Captain Trips [the name for the ultra-deadly antigen that exterminates 99.4% of the human population in Stephen King’s “The Stand”], and that’s what shut the country down.”
Citing the known case and infection fatality rates - at around 1.8 percent and .18 percent respectively - Deace described Fauci’s “original cautious and modest expectations” as having turned out to be true. “So why did he abandon those for the fear porn we’ve seen the past year?” he asked. “We must get answers to questions like that … What changed those 11 days, because it changed the fate of America.”
At one point during those 11 days, on March 8, Fauci also gave his now-infamous interview to “60 Minutes” in which he declared that the general public should not “be walking around with a mask.” The next month, of course, the CDC did a complete 180-degree reversal, and Fauci later attributed his earlier stand, which was based on sound science and is still provably correct a year later, to a ‘noble lie’ of sorts, that he was merely saving PPE for healthcare workers. Riiight. As if there wasn’t enough T-shirt material, bandanas, and neck gaiters to go around, or something. The ‘good’ doctor also hilariously claimed that the possibility of asymptomatic spread wasn’t “clear” in March, even though the news-following public, including myself, was well aware of the claim as early as January 2020.
No, the man knew the science then, he stated it, and he was right … then. But, again, something changed. Something happened during February and April/May 2020 that made Anthony Fauci and virtually the entire medical establishment reverse course on how to instruct the public to deal with COVID-19. It wasn’t asymptomatic spread. It wasn’t ‘droplets.’ So what was it? Not being privy to any of their discussions, I don’t know for sure. But I can render an educated guess, and mine has a lot to do with the last section of this NPR article from April 3, 2020, one of the first major pieces to tout mask use as a way to fight COVID-19:
“And for the others around you, it's a warning. ‘It says: Watch out. There's a public health crisis right now, there's a virus going around, we need to be on top guard,’ says [Dr. Michael] Klompas. "I think it can actually be a reinforcer, a reminder of the state of crisis that we face in society."
Another example comes from this May Health Affairs article about mask use during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic: “The lessons from the 1918 influenza epidemic for local, state, and federal health officials are clear: Masks must be constructed and worn correctly, wearing masks in public must be part of a comprehensive social distancing strategy, masks are essential for certain care-taking occupations, and the psychological benefits of seeing everyone wearing masks helps raise awareness about disease transmission.”
By May and most certainly June and beyond, masks had become a tool for compliance, a totem to help ‘force’ the public to stay afraid and do the things the medical establishment felt would fight the spread of the pandemic. To them, it likely mattered little to nothing whether the masks actually did anything in and of themselves to accomplish this. Sure, they seized on some bogus one-off hairdresser ‘study’ and some perceived, cherry-picked correlation in Kansas counties to give a sciency tint to the madness, but the strategy after that was obviously to press on and ignore or dismiss any data to the contrary. Suddenly, in the span of a few weeks, decades of science was tossed aside and “masks work!” became ‘settled science’ that wasn’t to be questioned.
This could explain much of the mixed messaging given over time by the CDC and WHO. In June, when a WHO official said the much-ballyhooed asymptomatic virus spread was “very rare,” she was quickly made to backtrack and withdraw her statement. I submit that this wasn’t because she was inaccurate, but because the powers-that-be quickly perceived that this information would be a severe blow to those who wanted widespread forced public masking to continue.
More recently, the CDC can’t get its own messaging straight. Should vaccinated people travel or should they not? Can they transmit the virus? Hints and statements that they can’t are quickly suppressed, and my guess, again, is that the shuffling here has far more to do with their cult-like devotion to masks than anything else. If vaccinated people can travel and aren’t transmitting, why should they continue to wear masks? The only conceivable answer is that none of this has ever been about science, only behavior modification.
Viewing it through this lens, you can see the drama play out in stunning detail in the exchanges last month between Sen. Rand Paul, who aptly pointed out the “viral theater” of requiring the vaccinated to continue to mask up, and Fauci, who gets visibly frustrated and increasingly illogical trying to keep the lid on the deception. Weeks later, when asked by MSNBC why states that have lifted mask mandates, like Texas and Mississippi, aren’t spiking like New York, Michigan, and other places, Fauci admits, “I’m not really quite sure.”
Indeed, from the ridiculous ‘masked walk of shame’ from the doors of a restaurant past unmasked patrons talking and dining, to the vaccinated being expected to continue masking up indefinitely, to the viral theater of leaders and media figures donning masks for the cameras only to remove them when they think nobody is looking, to the forced muzzling of children despite the fact that they aren’t statistically at risk and aren’t a major transmission source, all the way to a New Hampshire track coach literally being fired for refusing to force his athletes to wear masks WHILE THEY ARE RUNNING, real science and data have long ago taken a back seat to COVID theater.
Bottom line: Medical science is one thing, behavioral science is quite another. And our overlords, led by epidemiologists like Dr. Anthony Fauci, have been deeply involved in behavioral ‘science’ for more than a year. Such an approach, however, cannot long coexist with our Constitution or any freedom-loving democracy. It may be a ‘noble lie,’ but it’s still a lie that’s being used to manipulate the public on a massive, destructive scale.
I’ve been saying this for a year!!
GA was liberated Friday. I stopped in a Kroger Sat eve.. maskless. I was the only one in there without a mask on.
I repeat.. everyone else wore a mask!!
Plus all stood 6 ft apart with their carts at ck out!
Being that obedient ...sheep.. gives me fits!!
Probably so. But if trump would have said in March 2020, wear the dang mask, he’d be president today.
You are kidding... of course...
My classic example is cigarettes. Plenty of people dislike cigarettes. They used to be common. People smoked everywhere. Now they are mostly gone. And a lot of people are super pleased about that. "Because they're bad. The government was right to take away our freedom."
The principle should be important.
Government control over the minutiae of your life isn't a good thing. If you accept the concept that the government "owns" you, then you're likely to end up wearing a pointless mask as a handy identifier of your sheep-like personality.
It would me give me fits too.
Funny, how “the flu” disappeared, when
2019-2020 Flu Season on Track to Be Especially Severe, New CDC Data Suggests
https://time.com/5758953/flu-season-2019-2020/
Fauci is a money-driven pol. Money from government to NIH, PEPFAR, General Fund, UN/WHO, pharmas, Chinese labs.
Have you seen this one on PEPFAR? It’s 45 minutes, connects the player$ (Including Fauci, Birx and Pence).
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RSfP8sXtMbk/
Tony Fauci is an immunologist. He has no formal background in epidemiology and he has never held a position that has anything to do with epidemiology (except that as head of NIAID he has to administer a grant process which includes some epidemiologist's applications).
He also (by the way) has nothing to do with CDC, which is a branch of the Public Health Service.
Bump and bookmark
The 2nd amendment will become subject to health concern over firearms in homes? Thousands of others have already circumvented them by obtaining Ziverdo,Now we need to get hold of 15 minute tests by Abbot.
Right now we are being controlled by un-elected health bureaucrats whose job it is to frighten the public.Those who press drug therapy and freedom of individuals to treat themselves with the 15 minute Abbot test and Ziverdo for example....no one is talking about that in government .Both the test and Ziverdo should be available over the counter without prescription. Instead we are regaled with the falsehood that we don’t want out health care system to be overwhelmed.I don’t give a crap if its overwhelmed.Neither doi the public, we want to live. As a matter of fact the system is sure to eventually be overwhelmed. The battle against this virus needs to have weapons in the hands of the people themselves, not metered out by a professional group of draconian jokers like Fauci.
But the rumblings are beginning. People are getting sick of living in fear without freedom. In the USA, these guys are making waves:
Dr. Pierre Kory video must see: Ivermectin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
And in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the Health Authorities have been sent packing.The Wrath of God, LOL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHt6PXwfaos&t=114s
We are not going to put up with it much longer IMHO.
Money quote:
If vaccinated people can travel and aren’t transmitting, why should they continue to wear masks? The only conceivable answer is that none of this has ever been about science, only behavior modification.
Playing “us?” The majority of “us” is more like it. Neither myself or most of my friends ever wore a mask and never will. If an establishment required a mask to receive service I didn’t require their service.
Most people don’t care much one way or the other about minor inconvenience of wearing masks while shopping, and most people don’t care about restaurants or bars at all.
They aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
Ya don’t say?
You kind of get a feel for who the control freaks are due to the fraudulent masking epidemic whose purpose is a social engineering effort at finest.
We’re all antifa (misnomer) now?
Or,muslims?
Both conceal their identity.
The "sixth month trial" is now entering its third round....
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