Posted on 06/13/2022 8:56:46 AM PDT by lightman
Unless you’re visiting a medical facility still taken in by the mask-cult or you live in a big city or some obscure California county run by hypochondriac Democrat whack-jobs, you’re probably generally living your life without being forced to wear a useless, bacteria-laden piece of t-shirt material over your face. However, if your overlords have gone out of their way to clarify that mask mandates have only been lifted because Covid rates have gone down or even that recent iterations of the virus have become less deadly, they are purposefully missing the overall picture and slyly holding on to the pretext that will invite the insanity back at any point - that masks “work” to stop or curb the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses.
They don’t, obviously, but their rigid belief system is not surprising. Belief in the power and efficacy of face masks has become a de facto religion to these cultist nutjobs, and they’re just itching for the next opportunity to impose their ‘faith’ on the rest of us. If you think I’m exaggerating, consider that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) just recommended masking while traveling again based on the spread of … monkeypox. That’s right, that piece of cloth over your face is so magical that everyone must now wear one to ‘protect’ against a virus that so far mainly has spread at gay nightclubs via direct contact with the open pustules of infected people.
Indeed, the unabashed insistence that masks ‘work’ has become one of the most insane and evil lies in all of human history. Not only did it create a false sense of security that doubtless led to more infections than would otherwise had occurred, it also led to years of speech and developmental delays in children, untold disruptions of societal cohesion, millions of tons of useless and pointless medical waste in our oceans and landfills, massive psychological issues in countless people who still mask-up in the absurdest of places and situations to this day, and even actual medical harms that are just being uncovered (keep reading). All while doing absolutely nothing towards their intended purpose. If there has been a worse trade-off, I’d love to see it.
If masks or mask mandates worked, wouldn’t we see hard evidence of it by now, you know, more than two years in? If there were such evidence, wouldn’t the powers-that-be be shouting it from the rooftops? Instead, they’ve been pretty quiet because of charts like this, which used the CDC’s own data to compare Covid spread in counties that had mask mandates against counties that did not. The result? No discernible difference.
Thankfully, the tide is turning. Key research and data gathering is being conducted and released that continue to put a stake in the heart of forced masking. Here’s a sampling of the latest:
A University of Louisville study released in May 2022 found that mask mandates and greater compliance resulting from them “did not predict lower growth rates when community spread was low (minima) or high (maxima)." The study, which used CDC data across several seasons, found that mask usage and mandates “are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states.”
Remember that CDC study purporting to show that school masking was effective? Did you wonder what the results would have been if someone had conducted a higher quality study over a greater sample size and period of time? Ambarish Chandra of University of Toronto and Dr. Tracy Hoeg of University of California, Davis did exactly that with this Lancet study titled, “Revisiting Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements—United States, July 1—October 20 2021.” Their results: “... no significant relationship between mask mandates and case rates.” Color me shocked.
And finally, emerging evidence of what many of us suspected all along, the possibility that masks could actually be actively harming people. February 2022 saw the release of a medical journal report comparing Covid-19 fatality rates across Kansas counties during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Titled, “The Foegen Effect: A Mechanism by Which Facemasks Contribute to the COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate,” the observational study - published February 2022 in Medicine by German doctor Zacharias Fögen - analyzed “whether mandatory mask use influenced the case fatality rate in Kansas.”
The paper’s stated most important finding: “... contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case … Results from this study strongly suggest that mask mandates actually caused about 1.5 times the number of deaths or ~50% more deaths compared to no mask mandates.” The study theorized that the so-called “Foegen effect,” whereby hypercondensed droplets caught by masks are re-inhaled and introduced deeper into the respiratory tract, could be responsible for the increased Covid mortality rate.
And it doesn’t stop there. Another peer reviewed study, released in April 2022, compared mask usage across Europe during the pandemic and found no negative correlations between mask usage and Covid-19 cases and deaths. It also admitted to have found a "moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe" which "suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences." Sure, there are plenty of other factors at play here that make it impossible - for now - to absolutely conclude that masks are harmful, but you can draw your own conclusions.
This is just the latest in what I hope will be a tremendous body of growing research and data points that will continue to render the mask cult completely impotent when they try to reimpose their neurosis on society. The underlying theme? If masks ‘work,’ why don’t they … you know … work? Why aren’t there discernably lower death and rates in the places that masked up for years versus those that barely did anything? There aren’t, because this has been a gigantic house of cards that continues to fall down around them. Let’s make sure it never gets built again.
If the "vaccine" "works" why do we need masks?
Can we compromise and just make democrats wear paper bags over their heads at all times?
My daughter got COVID two weeks ago. She self-quarantined in her room for a week, but was back to normal in three days.
My son and I are once-vaxxed (in 2021). Neither of us got it.
When I say my daughter “got COVID,” I mean she (a) tested positive according to one of the government-supplied test kits, and (b) had a measurable fever for two days.
Closer to home example, my sister who still wears a mask everywhere and is vaccinated 3 times attributes her self to not getting covid in a house where her daughter and grandson have already had it, her grandson had covid 3 times and is vaccinated three times her daughter vaccinate 3 times also. This pandemic is mostly mental illness brought on by consistent scumedia fear porn and a heavy dose of the view and other like minded idiot daytime puke fests
It’s part of leftist religion. No amount of facts will dissuade them from the ritual of wearing masks.
Please stop confusing the Branch Covidians with the application of Common Sense. Their hypochondriac hysterics make them feel safe.
If you want the shot(s) get them. If you want masks wear them. Just don’t FORCE your hypochondriac hysterics on me. Branch Covidians have NO RIGHT to force me to do anything. As far as I know, I still have free choice in this country. Democrats haven’t killed that right as of yet.
Plastic bags. It's the only way to be sure.
Breathing thru a damp petri-dish of bacteria on your face may not be healthy. Who knew?
That is one of the things that makes me angriest of all-they deliberately scared the crap out of weak and vulnerable people, and they did it deliberately.
If one is good, two would be better...
However, it would change the definition of a double bagger...
I’m triple vaxxed. At this point I would consider getting Omicron as another booster. I won’t bother getting boosted til there is an updated vaccine that works against the newer variants.
A new and great book addresses our world wide Covid panic B$, explains the B$ and has some suggestions.
https://rumble.com/embed/ucfsd.v1496tb/
Available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.
The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next! By: Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster,
How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of Spring 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be replaced by a new society as managed by a medical/ruling elite that promised but failed to deliver virus mitigation, all in the name of public health. Meanwhile, we’ve lost so much of what we once had: travel freedoms, privacy, a democratic presumption of equality, commercial freedoms, and even the access to information portals. Something has gone very wrong.
To make sense of it all, the Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce the publication of The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next, by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker. Combining rigorous scholarship with evocative and accessible prose, the book covers all the issues central to the pandemic and the disastrous policy response, a narrative as comprehensive as it is intellectually devastating.
In short, this is THE book the world needs right now.
In the Great Panic of early 2020, nearly every government in the world restricted the movement of its population, disrupted the education of its children, suspended normal individual liberties, hijacked its healthcare system, and in other ways increased its direct control of people’s lives. Attempts to control the new coronavirus in most countries made the number of deaths from both the virus and other health problems rise. Some countries and regions snapped out of the madness in early 2021 or even before. Yet other governments, still in 2021, were ever more fanatically obsessed with control.
Why did 2020 become, so suddenly and so forcefully, a year of global panic over a virus that for most people is barely more dangerous than a standard-issue flu virus?
This book reveals how the madness started, what kept it going, and how it might end. This is also a book about stories and experiences, some real and some fictionalized to protect identities. Join Jane the complier, James the decider, and Jasmine the doubter, the three core protagonists of the narrative part of the book.
Their experiences illustrate what happened to individuals and through them to whole societies, telling us — if we care to listen — how to avoid a repeat. This literary presentation is mixed with detailed reports of the actual data and deep research that has generally been obscured in the midst of media madness and obfuscation by public-health authority.
https://rumble.com/embed/ucfsd.v1496tb/
Exactly
For it to work, you need to know how to properly decontaminate it when removing.
Anything less may or may not work depending on what you are trying to filter out.
The ridiculous "masks" that make liberals happy mostly don't work.
They are fine for sawdust and other visible materials but not for a virus.
A new and great book addresses our world wide Covid panic B$, explains the B$ and has some suggestions.
https://rumble.com/embed/ucfsd.v1496tb/
Available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.
The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next! By: Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster,
How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of Spring 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be replaced by a new society as managed by a medical/ruling elite that promised but failed to deliver virus mitigation, all in the name of public health. Meanwhile, we’ve lost so much of what we once had: travel freedoms, privacy, a democratic presumption of equality, commercial freedoms, and even the access to information portals. Something has gone very wrong.
To make sense of it all, the Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce the publication of The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next, by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker. Combining rigorous scholarship with evocative and accessible prose, the book covers all the issues central to the pandemic and the disastrous policy response, a narrative as comprehensive as it is intellectually devastating.
In short, this is THE book the world needs right now.
In the Great Panic of early 2020, nearly every government in the world restricted the movement of its population, disrupted the education of its children, suspended normal individual liberties, hijacked its healthcare system, and in other ways increased its direct control of people’s lives. Attempts to control the new coronavirus in most countries made the number of deaths from both the virus and other health problems rise. Some countries and regions snapped out of the madness in early 2021 or even before. Yet other governments, still in 2021, were ever more fanatically obsessed with control.
Why did 2020 become, so suddenly and so forcefully, a year of global panic over a virus that for most people is barely more dangerous than a standard-issue flu virus?
This book reveals how the madness started, what kept it going, and how it might end. This is also a book about stories and experiences, some real and some fictionalized to protect identities. Join Jane the complier, James the decider, and Jasmine the doubter, the three core protagonists of the narrative part of the book.
Their experiences illustrate what happened to individuals and through them to whole societies, telling us — if we care to listen — how to avoid a repeat. This literary presentation is mixed with detailed reports of the actual data and deep research that has generally been obscured in the midst of media madness and obfuscation by public-health authority.
https://rumble.com/embed/ucfsd.v1496tb/
There is no mask for a virus. The best masks (N95) are designed to filter bacteria. If a bacteria was the size of a basketball a virus would be the size of a marble. No mask will stop viruses.
They could have paid me half the amount the spent with the same results. During the initial ‘lockdown’ we found some shields that clip on to the frames of your glasses. 99% of the places we went to after the lockdown had no issue with the shields. The only places were med facilities. We were exposed to a lot of people from a lot of places. Never got it. Never considered the vaxxes or boosters. Only tests we had were prior to med procedures. Negative results. Were we blessed? I think that and the normal vitamin/supplement regime we had been on and continue now were also contributing factors. Masks? Only when we were required to. Now? NOPE!
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Even before there was any data, it was obvious that the mandates were political, not scientific. How?
Simply look at the stark difference in behavior between Republican governors and mayors vs. their Democrat counterparts when Covid was first reported. It was uncanny how eager the Democrats were to take away our liberties. Sure, some spineless Republicans followed suit, but it was obvious which party was benefiting politically.
The basis of the Democrat political model has always been to buy votes with taxpayer money - a strategy which depends on them having the authority to dole out government benefits - to “regulate” the economy. Democrats would love to nationalize every aspect of our lives, until there is no more private economy, and no more individual liberty whatsoever. Only dependency.
Of course, they don’t always say it out loud, but this is what they are after: Marxism. Republicans are supposed to be the ones who oppose that - the ones who defend our Republican system of government as laid out on the Constitution - at least the non-RINOs.
So, when you see health-related policy this starkly divided along party lines, it is obviously not being driven by actual science. Actual science would tend to be objective and therefore nonpartisan. I think it was clear from the very beginning of the Covid hoax that the Democrats saw it as great opportunity and sought at every turn to make the most of it.
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