Posted on 04/25/2021 10:20:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How many times have we seen it from the liberal media? They detail a large gathering, with the insufferable comment “no masks.” The mask has been the crutch for the panic peddlers, something they think offers a total shield against COVID. Wrong. It doesn’t. I wore a mask and I still contracted the virus last November. Second, the so-called experts led by Dr. Anthony Fauci and his crew have clung to mask-wearing even for those who have been vaccinated which is nothing but theater. If we go down the list, the experts have been wrong on just about everything. Contracting this virus via surfaces, masks, testing, reopening schools—you name it. They have tried to scare us into submission over a virus with a 90+ percent survivability rate, plus three vaccines. This fear circus was never going to last.
After weeks of doom and gloom about a fourth wave—it hasn’t happened. Only Michigan is seeing a serious spike, possibly because Gov. Whitmer is keeping people locked up. Staying inside is the worst thing you can do. Meanwhile, Texas has reopened fully. There is no more mask mandate—and the state hasn’t seen a spike. Oh, and this occurred over five weeks ago. Sorry, spring break didn’t create a COVID doomsday. Why? We’re probably damn close to herd immunity, though Fauci will never say that. In the meantime, the narrative from the COVID panic peddlers and the liberal media about mask-wearing and social distancing took a hit with a new MIT study that says both are worthless. Oh, and the caps on indoors occupancy are also not backed up by science and keeping windows open, fans blowing, and overall fresh air circulating is just as good as a new filtration system. In other words, teachers’ unions really have no reason to stay home anymore (via CNBC):
The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.
MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to Covid-19 in an indoor setting that factors in a variety of issues that could affect transmission, including the amount of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunization, variant strains, mask use, and even respiratory activity such as breathing, eating, speaking or singing.
Bazant and Bush question long-held Covid-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in a peer-reviewed study published earlier this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America.
“We argue there really isn’t much of a benefit to the 6-foot rule, especially when people are wearing masks,” Bazant said in an interview. “It really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”
The important variable the CDC and the WHO have overlooked is the amount of time spent indoors, Bazant said. The longer someone is inside with an infected person, the greater the chance of transmission, he said.
Opening windows or installing new fans to keep the air moving could also be just as effective or more effective than spending large amounts of money on a new filtration system, he said.
Bazant also says that guidelines enforcing indoor occupancy caps are flawed. He said 20 people gathered inside for 1 minute is probably fine, but not over the course of several hours, he said.
“What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be. Often times the space is large enough, the ventilation is good enough, the amount of time people spend together is such that those spaces can be safely operated even at full capacity and the scientific support for reduced capacity in those spaces is really not very good,” Bazant said. “I think if you run the numbers, even right now for many types of spaces you’d find that there is not a need for occupancy restrictions.”
Six-feet social distancing rules that inadvertently result in closed businesses and schools are “just not reasonable,” according to Bazant.
So, the occupancy rules are garbage. Fresh air and fans are just as effective as an expensive filtration system. The six-feet apart rule is ridiculous, and masks don’t protect you all that much. So, Fauci was wrong. The experts were wrong. But they’re so arrogant they cannot admit a mistake. They’ve taken a scared straight approach. Bill Maher actually offered a biting and rational commentary on how a) liberals are just as misinformed as the people they mock regarding this virus, and b) the experts opted not to give it to us straight which set us on this messaging mess that’s plagued us for a year. Yes, Maher made a pun about Trump and bleach, but he’s a comedian and a liberal. He’s bound to make a joke—but the overall message is clear: this isn’t the time to be mixing politics with the messaging on COVID. Fauci is a bureaucrat. The CDC director is a bureaucrat. They all have agendas. And they’re not gods. They’re not oracles. They were wrong. They’ve been wrong. And now they want us to live in fear because of variants. Sorry, the variants aren’t more lethal, so again they get a shovel to the face. We’re done. And you cannot tell us what we can and cannot do on the Fourth of July, doc. Your time is up. Shut up and let us reopen at will.
Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott lead the way. Oh, and teachers now have to get back to work for real this time.
Sheeple Mom, I feel really sorry for your kids.
The gasbag doctor really told you off, didn’t he?
I have received similar replies from him/her/whatever.
Doesn’t that silly troll know he is held in low regard by all the intelligent contributors to this forum?
What you said! Thank you!
Amen! The masking of kids is most abhorrent.
I sure hope they are not as nasty and controlling to their patients as they are to Freepers.
I would not want someone treating me who treated others who don’t agree with them with such contempt.
People like you who believe blogger’s misinformation over actual scientific data about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are the reason we know have “President” Biden instead of a second Trump term.
Do you even understand how much the fact that some conservatives fell for the hoaxes fed into the popular culture and propaganda against conservatives? Did you ever see any of the multitude of anti-conservative memes that spread around the internet making fun of conservatives?
Trump gave us a fantastic economy. He did a fantastic job at securing our border. He did great work with his employee Dr. Fauci to combat the spread of Covid-19. But the conspiracies were planted to try to make conservatives believe that public health measures are all about stripping us of our freedoms instead of public health. And who benefits from those conspiracies? The left.
If you think that wearing a mask imposes on your freedom, then how do you feel about the requirement to wear clothing in public? Doesn’t that infringe on your God-given right to exit your residence in exactly the way God made you?
New research results about Covid-19 are released on a daily basis. If Fauci did not review the latest research and update his recommendations accordingly, then I would question his credentials. However, since he appears to stay informed and make recommendations based on the newest information, I have no reason to doubt his qualifications.
To kids, the mask is just another item of clothing. It's only adults that I have seen acting childish about putting a mask on.
Tell me, do you force your children to wear clothing in public? If so, then how dare you force them to cover up their bodies and teach them to be ashamed of the way that God made them!
People like me are reasonable and rational. They don’t have time for Branch Covidians. And what the hell does Trump have to do with this?
Why? Because they are scientifically literate? I did not realize that is a liability.
That business was quite busy, as a matter of fact.
I'd much rather frequent a place where I know that reckless behavior is not going to cause another Covid-19 outbreak cluster. Going somewhere where people like you apparently congregate would be the best way to expose myself to Covid-19--no, thanks!
And requiring you to wear a mask is the same as treating you like a leper? Gee, stop with the hyperbole already. Do you get mad at being required to wear shoes and shirts in restaurants? How do you feel about the laws requiring you to wear clothing in public places? How dare anyone force you to cover your precious God-given body!
Note to Matt Vespa as a subtle reminder. “ #factsdontmatter “ At least that’s what pedo joe reminded us. “Truth” yes, facts NO.
Yes, the maskers walk way away from you like you are radioactive or something. I actually find it quite humorous.
It’s not reckless to not wear a mask. That’s just total BS. Did you know that there are treatments for Covid? By the way, you can’t be exposed to Covid from people that don’t have Covid.
Your wearing clothing argument that you keep posting is ridiculous. Everyone knows it’s not the same thing in any way, shape or form. Good grief.
Standing and applauding...
Joining you...
Me too
Oh, boy...Biz owners, the ones still open, likely shelled out big bucks for something that's flaming useless.
The “saving lives” mantra is just hilarious. These are a bunch of puffed up, self important people. You can’t give someone Covid unless you have it. They treat everyone as if they are a walking death trap. It’s becoming kinda funnyl
“The experts provided the best advice they could with very limited information.”
And your source for this extremely broad statement is what?
How in the world could you possibly have knowledge of what all the experts have done?
I think what we have here is a statement proving bias.
Your starting point for every assertion is: if the experts are saying it, then it’s true.
Branch Covidians—LOL!
OK, this is a little snarky, but it was a LONG day at work.
Just wondering if I’m the only one who hears Christine Baranski as Leonard Hoffstetter’s mom when reading {cough!} certain posts on here?
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