The notion that healthy people can spread a killer disease is the most insidious aspect of this pseudo-pandemic. It has kept children separated from aging grandparents; it has instilled fear of one’s neighbor in the minds of millions. It prolonged business closures; cancelled graduation ceremonies and sporting events; and ultimately resulted in preposterous mask mandates in every public space – from the grocery store to the park, from the daycare center to the university campus, depending, of course, on one’s nearness to those in positions of power infected with covid psychosis.
You might look into a 'real topper' to add to your conclusion. We have innate immunity, cross-immunity, and natural immunity. By now, with this virus being endemic and the variants being weaker and weaker, society has achieved herd immunity. Or we are as close to as can be expected. But the C19 shots do not bestow immunity; they are offered as 'protection' which is quiet a different thing. FURTHER the shots introduce unnecessary risks for the vast majority of the population.
You can see the similarities of the masking, testing, and vaxing issues. We know the C19 shots are not conventional vaccines; they are gene therapies where we already have many low cost and very safe and effective early treatments. Well, the PCR is not a positive-negative test; and it does not test for infection, infectiousness, nor illness. And, of course, face coverings are not Personal Protective Equipment; and use of actual PPE for 'source control' is distinct from personal protection. I am quite sure you can make a table to show the common themese across masking, testing, and vaxing. Risk assessment being skewed if done at all. Introduction of unnecessary risks and actual harms. Ineffectiveness against viral spread. Reliance on the non-issue of assymptomatic spread and the skewing of the available evidence in hugely misleading ways. On and on.
THE OVERALL problem is the trust in authority rather than trust in evidence and sound reasoning. How we got there is the deliberately induced confusion and fearmongering. This causes peope to throw their hands up in surrender and say, Tell me what to do. It also makes about 1/4 of people become fixated, to be hypnotized, and so forth. The 1/4 of us who have somehow stood outside of the haze are dutibound to declare that the emperior has no clothes. That is for the saek of the 1/2 who go along to get along because of reasons that are not about health and safety but are about confusion and fear and group pressure. The more the 1/4 of us effectively speak out and stand out, the less severe the mania will be in practice. But it takes us to interfere with the pattern at every opportunity. It disrupts the worse impulses even if a great deal of harm and suffering happens anyway.
IT CAN BE WORSE, believe it or not. So I encourage you to put together that 'real topper' and nail this down with all your deftness and strength. Because disruption is the name of the game now.
today in NJ our power crazed cluless gov murphy just renewed the forced school mask mandate emergency exec orders for another 30days OVER The objections of the legislature.
Very nicely done.
You might look into a 'real topper' to add to your conclusion. We have innate immunity, cross-immunity, and natural immunity. By now, with this virus being endemic and the variants being weaker and weaker, society has achieved herd immunity. Or we are as close to as can be expected. But the C19 shots do not bestow immunity; they are offered as 'protection' which is quiet a different thing. FURTHER the shots introduce unnecessary risks for the vast majority of the population.
You can see the similarities of the masking, testing, and vaxing issues. We know the C19 shots are not conventional vaccines; they are gene therapies where we already have many low cost and very safe and effective early treatments. Well, the PCR is not a positive-negative test; and it does not test for infection, infectiousness, nor illness. And, of course, face coverings are not Personal Protective Equipment; and use of actual PPE for 'source control' is distinct from personal protection. I am quite sure you can make a table to show the common themese across masking, testing, and vaxing. Risk assessment being skewed if done at all. Introduction of unnecessary risks and actual harms. Ineffectiveness against viral spread. Reliance on the non-issue of assymptomatic spread and the skewing of the available evidence in hugely misleading ways. On and on.
THE OVERALL problem is the trust in authority rather than trust in evidence and sound reasoning. How we got there is the deliberately induced confusion and fearmongering. This causes peope to throw their hands up in surrender and say, Tell me what to do. It also makes about 1/4 of people become fixated, to be hypnotized, and so forth. The 1/4 of us who have somehow stood outside of the haze are dutibound to declare that the emperior has no clothes. That is for the saek of the 1/2 who go along to get along because of reasons that are not about health and safety but are about confusion and fear and group pressure. The more the 1/4 of us effectively speak out and stand out, the less severe the mania will be in practice. But it takes us to interfere with the pattern at every opportunity. It disrupts the worse impulses even if a great deal of harm and suffering happens anyway.
IT CAN BE WORSE, believe it or not. So I encourage you to put together that 'real topper' and nail this down with all your deftness and strength. Because disruption is the name of the game now.
I guess we shouldn't totally ignore pre-symptomatic spread, although it is also small (Fig. 3 in the link): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.12787
They find that 11% of transmission events were pre-symptomatic and 20% were post-symptomatic. Not that this justifies masking kids (or anyone else).
today in NJ our power crazed cluless gov murphy just renewed the forced school mask mandate emergency exec orders for another 30days OVER The objections of the legislature.