Posted on 05/29/2021 3:59:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
I get the New York Times' daily free newsletter in my email. You can save your rotten tomatoes. I refuse to pay for anything they print. But sometimes it's useful to stay in contact with the other side.
The NYT May 27 letter discusses the history of the COVID lab leak theory and declares that "the best mitigation strategies — travel restrictions, testing, contact tracing, social distancing, ventilation and masking — are still the best mitigation strategies." My parsimony has once again been proven well founded. Let's break it down.
Mitigation is "the process or result of making something less severe, dangerous, painful, harsh, or damaging." That means that anything that makes getting COVID less likely is a form of mitigation. Ditto for making the bug not so nasty if you should happen to get it. All of the NYT measures fall into the first group. And, as they like to trumpet, we should "Follow the Science!"
Travel Restrictions:
These have a level of plausibility, but once the bug is in-country, limiting travel between the U.S. and U.K. becomes meaningless. The old saw about closing the barn door after the horse is gone comes to mind. After the Allies created a foothold in Normandy, Germany didn't have a choice. The fight was now in the hedgerows, not on the beaches. Closing our borders made intuitive sense early on. But once it was clear that the virus was "in the wild," all travel restrictions lost their meaning.
"In the wild" is a crucial term. It means that, for practical purposes, the virus is everywhere. There will be more of it near a sick person, but not having anyone spreading it in your house doesn't mean that it isn't being spread at your workplace, grocery store, or gas station.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
the vaccinated, the unvaccinated and no mention of those who have the antibodies and do not need the vaccination
Finally, a well-informed and articulate MD. He knows exactly what is happening and why. Good article.
He didn't tell us everything in this single article, but what he did say is exactly right.
The basic problem with the idea of ‘mitigation ‘ is that there was a thought that ‘if one thing helps a little, then many things will help a lot’ , absent any regard for consequences, unintended or otherwise.
The direct danger of this disease, while real, is so much less than the total dangers of mitigation consequences.
Just think of the photos ever shown of the hazmat suits worn to deal with Ebola virus. If covid was 0ne percent as dangerous, there would be several Millions dead. That is the lie all the world has been scared into believing, that a cloth mask will make a difference. We have been stuck on the thirteenth day of flattening the curve.
Masks are of modest effectiveness. As exposure time goes up, their effectiveness goes down. Putting masks on school or summer camp kids is absurd.
Social distancing is of considerable value.
As many thieves could tell you, policing often fails, but we use policing because it is an available tool that often works too, though not as well as we would like.
Masks and social distancing were used to try to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed, which they often did.
I recommended around May of 2020 that vaccines be employed as soon as possible, deployed in Fibonacci sequence-based fast but not exponential rollout, say 10 jabs day 1, 20 jabs day 2, 30 jabs day 3, etc.
Most US Covid deaths in the second half of 2020 could have been avoided with Fibonacci-based vaccine rollout.
Science is important, but so is math.
“If covid was 0ne percent as dangerous, there would be several Millions dead.”
There are several million people dead.
Death count: 3,539,701
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
“once it was clear that the virus was ‘in the wild,’ all travel restrictions lost their meaning.”
The virus is developing variants.
The vaccines may not protect against a new variant.
Travel restrictions are still appropriate at the international level. The UK I believe now has about 8,000 official reports of Indian variant detection.
He might even be Bright and Clean as well.
Pfft!
CHOICE killed more than that in the same amount of time.
Since the Trojan horse is already inside the gate, what's a few more ponies?
1) The principal mode of spread is by small-particle aerosols which are persistent. The droplet hypothesis is falsified.
2) The "six foot rule", which derives from the droplet concept, is true in part but mostly false. Aerosols are diluted by space and by time, so, IF you must be exposed to a person generating aerosols, the closer you are to them, the higher your "dose" of virus is going to be.
3) Outdoor or large volume indoor space exposure (Sam's Club, Home Depot) is inconsequential, EXCEPT under conditions of high population density and very high infection rates (Wuhan, Bergamo, Manhattan, Manaus, New Delhi) when being outdoors among large crowds can be dangerous.
I have written on this extensively, and demonstrated that masks are useless. Aerosol scientists have tackled the question, showing basically that you can have a mask that’s easy to breathe through but doesn’t filter worth a crap, or you can have one that filters well but is difficult to breathe through. That means that you breathe around it. And if the total area of that leak around the mask adds up to the size of a quarter, you’ve lost two thirds of the filtration.>>>
I would say that real masks can work somewhat better than the face diapers. except they are outlawed by doctors. They are sealed around the mouth and nose.
I don’t ever see these discussed with science. Just that my doctor won’t allow me to wear one in the doctors office.
Draegar
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3m
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