I have always spoken against any mandate. I refuse to mandate my employees having vaccination. I believe masks were a perversion of science — they dont work. If you truly needed a mask mandate, it would have been with P-100 masks and then people would have had to learn how to use them. They do not know how to use them. It was at best virtue signaling to wear masks. As a point of science, when I was mucking around in the airways of the people who had CoVID, for my protection I wore the highest level of masks (P-100 respirators). I could to smell anything and they were incredibly tight fighting. If you could smell through a mask you were wearing — it was not effective to prevent spread. So as a point of science — mask mandates were nothing more than political grandstanding.
As for business closures — also total bullish*t. Not only do I believe that they were unconstitutional, I believe that were idiotic. I guess I still believe in an individual has the right to assess the risk of anything as it pertains to him or herself, and then act in his or her best interest. I think the individual knows what is best for him or her. The government should stay out of private sector and private decision. Period.
I believe this disease had been the first pandemic broadcast in real time and with the speed and inaccuracies of social media and the internet. It has allowed people to broadcast emotional, and untested information, and proclaim expertise in areas in which there is none. Discernment of what actually is has become extremely difficult due to the cacophony of noise that can be broadcast by everyone with a computer connection or cell phone.
The disease is the disease, and I think it is fairly obvious how it has evolved. The politics surrounding it is what is novel. The science around the disease has evolved — the politics have only worsened.
Anyway, thanks of your kindness. I appreciate your insights very much.
This is what I posted on another internet discussion format on February 27, 2020.
Note the date.
“I am of sufficient vintage to remember the “AIDS epidemic”; as well as SARS, Ebola, and various and sundry swine flues.
With every new pestilence there are two epidemics; the virus itself and the epidemic of fear.
It is the latter which is the more destructive.
Most viruses are easily defeated with a very weak (1:100) Clorox solution.
Fear is not so easily contained. Fear has already deprived Christians in Hong Kong of the rites associated with the beginning of Western (and soon) Orthodox Lent.
Fear may lead to government enforced deprivation of Holy Week and Pascha on many continents.
That is what I fear the most.”
And that came to pass for TWO consecutive Paschas!
Thanks Doc, your brilliant, professional insight is very much appreciated.
+1 Very well said!