/s...I wish!
Posted on 02/13/2022 9:18:29 PM PST by lightman
When you take into account the divisiveness, unscientific nonsense, and tyrannical madness that has gone into the mask wars over the past two years, the thought that it could have all been avoided with a simple compromise is astoundingly frustrating to say the least. What, you ask? You mean there has always been a workable solution to insane, hypochondriac mask nazis doing everything possible to force damp, bacteria-laden pieces of cloth over everyone’s faces for nigh-on 22 months now? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying, and the solution was so obvious, so perfect, and so logical that, ever true to Branch Covidian form, it has been entirely avoided by the powers-that-be … until now.
That solution, of course, is "one-way masking," and the concept, which Team Reality has known about since the forced masking insanity began, is finally gaining steam among leftists who are ready to take the OMICRON off-ramp but aren’t sure what to tell their more crazed, uh, risk-averse Covidian cultists. Here are just a few examples.
"If you are vaccinated, boosted, and wearing a well-fitted N95 or similar indoors, 'your risk is extremely low,' says Joseph Allen, a COVID and ventilation expert at Harvard. 'I mean, there’s not much else in life that would have as low a risk as that. I would qualify your risk as de minimis.' An N95 mask filters about 95 percent of airborne particles. But two surgical masks—one on me, one on you—filter only about 91 percent, Allen wrote recently for The Washington Post. Because most people’s masks aren’t perfectly sealed onto their faces, studies show that N95s reduce the wearer’s uptake of coronavirus particles by 57 to 86 percent. And that’s on top of the protection that vaccines and boosters already offer."
"After all, N95s were what ER doctors wore to treat COVID patients at the very beginning of the pandemic—before vaccines or boosters were available, and before most people began wearing masks indoors at all. 'These masks are literally designed to block out infectious aerosols,' says Abraar Karan, an infectious-disease doctor at Stanford. He thinks that more everyday people should upgrade their masks, and that for health-care workers, N95s should be made mandatory."
In a piece for The Washington Post titled, "Schools can safely make masks optional with the CDC’s new guidelines," Drs. Shira Doron, Westyn Branch-Elliman and Elissa Perkins wrote:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance on masks this past week, stating that respirators, such as N95s, are more protective than surgical masks, which in turn protect better than cloth masks. These updates are appropriate from a scientific standpoint. They also offer a pathway to compromise in the place where masking policies are most hotly debated: schools."
"Respirators and other high-quality masks are highly effective at protecting their wearers, regardless of what people around them are doing. That makes the old mantra “my mask protects you and your mask protects me” obsolete. As a result, schools can finally safely make masks optional for students and staff."
Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and a frequent media contributor on the topic of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, told "CBS Mornings" anchor Tony Dokoupil earlier this month that one can protect oneself "under pretty much all circumstances" with a KN95 or N95 mask.
"When I think about when I've been in the hospital taking care of sick patients with Covid, I'm wearing an N95 and they're not," he said. "The patients are not necessarily wearing masks, and yet I know that I am protected by that and of course I'm protected by my vaccine. So for immunocompromised people and for people who are worried about getting sick, wearing a high quality mask provides an enormous amount of protection against getting infected."
Then there’s Dr. Leanna Wen, the former Planned Parenthood head best known in these circles for recently supporting draconian measures against the unvaccinated, including basically locking vaccine refusers in their homes. Even Wen, the queen of the Branch Covidians herself, is doing an about-face on restrictions and mandates and is touting one-way masking as a compromise.
"Times have changed," she wrote in a WaPo op-ed last week. "Cases are falling rapidly. Vaccines are widely available for everyone 5 and older, and they work: People vaccinated and boosted are 97 times less likely to die of covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated. Research also shows that respirator masks (N95, KN95 or KF94) are highly effective at protecting wearers, even if others around them are unmasked."
There you have it. They’re all-in, although it’s obvious to any thinking person that their motives are likely politics rather than any understanding of real science. They know the forever-restriction crowd can’t win in November, but they also need the staunch Covidians to come along. So this is a compromise, obviously. Except, I wonder if they realize what they’ve done? Because in effect, taking the “one-way masking” off-ramp to forced masking and contending that properly worn N95s could provide some real protection to the vulnerable forever discredits forced masking of the public going forward, from now until the end of time.
Before you comment (and I know you’re thinking it), it doesn’t matter whether N95s actually “work” to stop or slow the spread of the virus. In fact, I would argue that, given failures in Germany and much of Europe, mandating them has NOT worked, at all. The point is that our Covidian would-be overlords, those arbiters of all things ‘science,’ are now declaring that they do work to protect the wearer. Fine. No take-backs. If your N95 mask protects you during the next Covid wave, I don’t need to wear one. Ever.
/s...I wish!
Such 🐂💩. Amazing.
THAT "mantra" came to the national stage "thanks" to Dr. Richard (Dickless) aka "Rachel" Levine who had been the Secretary of Health under PA Governor Tom Wolf (D eep Blue) then kicked upstairs to give Xoe Buy-DUNG the distinction of appointing the first high level "transgendered" deluded official.
He/she/it's mantra is best sung...to the tune of "The Barney Song":
Your mask protects me.
My mask protects you,
I’m a male-bald fat trannie
With an elbow bump and an air kiss too,
Soc’lly distanced: I love you.
Ping.
If you feel compelled to post a picture of “Cousin It” plesae remember the PA Ping list rules and follow up with at least one picture of our most recent former FOTUS, Melania.
BINGO!
I CHOSE to get vaccinated....my CHOICE.
If the vaccination is even half of what it is claimed to be I really don’t give a rat’s rump whether anyone else is vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked, coughing or calm, close or distant!
I am pro VOLUNTARY vax.
I am barely tolerant VOLUNTARY mask.
I am anti MANDATORY vax.
I am vehemently anti MANDATORY mask.
I have ZERO need to “feel safe” on the basis that everyone in a venue, a health care facility, or any other place has dutifully shown their papers or donned their diapers.
America will remain “the land of the free” ONLY if we demonstrate that we are “the home of the brave”!
“An N95 mask filters about 95 percent of airborne particles. But two surgical masks—one on me, one on you—filter only about 91 percent, Allen wrote recently for The Washington Post. Because most people’s masks aren’t perfectly sealed onto their faces, studies show that N95s reduce the wearer’s uptake of coronavirus particles by 57 to 86 percent. And that’s on top of the protection that vaccines and boosters already offer.””
Seems to me that with that statement this guy is dismantling his own case.
He says the one-on-me and the one-on-you case offers 91% protection, but the N95 mask because it doesn’t fit right offers only 57 to 86% protection. So how is wearing only the N95 better?
Do we know for certain that Levine has no penis? Some trannies only go partway (hormones, but no surgery), yet still qualify as "women" in clown world.
I have a P100 that only filters inbound. A flap opens to have my breath go out, unimpeded.
I like those.
“People vaccinated and boosted are 97 times less likely to die of covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated. “
She obviously mispoke. Everyone knows the right number is 897%. That’s the science.
Now I hope we will start seeing articles on the incredible damage masking has done to folks with disabilities.
Such as the hearing disabled who don’t know sign language and must lip-read in order to understand what is being said to them.
Or those who need speech therapy.
Or people with autism.
“Such as the hearing disabled who don’t know sign language”
I studied ASL when I was 12, as my cousin is deaf. It’s mostly hand gestures. I “talk” or a number of ASL people do as a habit because deaf people read lips excellently and it helps them. I still remember when I was 15 and was far across the room, I spoke to my brother that the other girl in the party was hot but didn’t know her name.
My deaf cousin then approached me and ASL’d me “her name is Christine, she lives 3 blocks away and she has a boyfriend”.
“No take-backs.”
LOL. Being progressive means never having to say you’re sorry.
dont forget the duct tape
Scott, Scott, Scott, have you learned nothing about Leftists? Yeah there are some hypochondriac Karens out there but for Leftists the real motivation is not about their risk of catching the virus. Its about showing all the world how moral and righteous they are (and how much better of a person they are than you) and about controlling you, making you bend the knee.
That’s what Leftists are really thinking - always and whatever the issue.
WAPO is wrong as usual.
Two Marines “say their experiment was designed to show the relative efficacies of a military gas mask, a KN95 mask, and the more common paper or cloth masks most students in Washington state use in school.”
““Particulates in bear spray are larger than the particulates in the COVID-19 virus,” Pendleton explained.”
“Our theory is that if protective measures won’t block the pepper spray, it probably won’t block the coronavirus – complete with documents attached,” Kissick concluded.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17FaG7mLEvo
That statement runs exactly 180 degrees contrary to what surgical mask manufacturers say about the efficacy of the masks in stopping viral infection. Unless they have moved the goalposts on this one like they in so may other things COVID related, it states on the back of every box that they do no protect one against viruses. Don't believe me, check it out yourselves.
So is this a case of an author simply not knowing the facts and simply believing the narrative, of is he/she flat out lying like so many other people during this so called "pandemic". If it IS a "pandemic", history will record it as a pandemic of hysteria and tyranny, not one that was truly a public health issue.
“I am pro VOLUNTARY vax.”
It isn’t a vax, according to its inventor, Dr. Malone.
I am against even being legally permitted to choose to get the mRNA injection, for it is falsely marketed, full of health risks, and has never been successfully tested.
Yes, it should be illegal even to be in posession of the poison.
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