I live in an area with a major medical center/teaching hospital affiliated with a medical school, and get periodic email updates from them, and they're clinging to masks and providing pediatric vaccination and all this is in a libertarian state which has been fairly reasonable in its approach to The Plague.
No amount of evidence will convince the the illogical subjective truther, ever.
The advantage they wield is their tribe will follow emotive diatribe without question, while the rational will consider their fables long enough that the middle of the road, bell curve peak, will consider it possible, and plant the seeds of illusion.
It is up to the rational, to continue the chore of eradicating those weeds, or the whole crop of humanity will become a field of worthless ground cover. Thank you, for being a farmer of truth.
For great information on masking, I recommend Ian Miller’s work. You can follow the Unmasked podcast and find Ian on Substack. He has written a whole book on the actual data.
Additionally, we used to know how important facial expressions were to human communication. Especially those of us with hearing impairments. But, nah, who cares about that anymore.
I found a pre-pandemic paper about the use of surgical masks for influenza. The looked at both the getting or giving influenza. It made no difference. Now it is magic, except when eating. Then risk disappears. Thank you for your clarity.
Covidians abandoned God and therefore required a new deity before whom to genuflect. They won't give up their faith easily, having the conviction of recent converts. As to their studies, all are best seen as apologetics: carefully reasoned arguments proceeding from curated data, all constructed to lead to a preordained conclusion, with the goal of converting the heathen and buttressing the wavering faith of the flock.
Just went to my college reunion at an Ivy League institution. Was monitoring their Covid rules because students and staff are required to be boosted, however us visitors had no requirements (otherwise I couldn’t have gone). Of course the day before reunion started they instituted an indoor mask mandate. Needless to say I ignored it and nobody confronted me. But this is a supposedly prestigious scientific institution that still believes in this nonsense.
Indeed. Maskers are just like those romantically scammed women who give their life savings to some guy they got to know on the Internet, without ever meeting him in the flesh, and even when everybody tells them they were duped, showing them irrefutable proof, they won't believe it., and send the scammer even more money, in the hope that somehow this irrational last gesture would prove them right after all. (It happened to someone dear to me, so I know how it looks first hand. II don't know how they call this behaviour in psychology, but the Brits (again) have a very apt expression: throw good money after the bad.)
Masks have become an excellent means of identifying the truly stupid walking amongst us. Perhaps they just hide their mouth breathing. For that at least, I am grateful.
For all the people of the world, I think I speak for many Americans in offering my apologies for the damage our CDC has inflicted on you. We'll fix it soon.
Exactly. The masks are basically ceremonial headgear. An invisible evil spirit is afoot, and we have to do something to ward off possession. The mask scares away the spirit, you see.
If the replicate the study using really scary masks instead of normal masks, I bet they would work better. jk.
The funny thing is that the more "science or medical" heavy the institution, the less science thinking that occurs.
I live in an area with a major medical center/teaching hospital affiliated with a medical school, and get periodic email updates from them, and they're clinging to masks and providing pediatric vaccination and all this is in a libertarian state which has been fairly reasonable in its approach to The Plague.
No amount of evidence will convince the the illogical subjective truther, ever.
The advantage they wield is their tribe will follow emotive diatribe without question, while the rational will consider their fables long enough that the middle of the road, bell curve peak, will consider it possible, and plant the seeds of illusion.
It is up to the rational, to continue the chore of eradicating those weeds, or the whole crop of humanity will become a field of worthless ground cover. Thank you, for being a farmer of truth.
Odd how (some, many?) people from East Asia persist in wearing facemasks; as if there's something talismanic about it. <shrug>
For great information on masking, I recommend Ian Miller’s work. You can follow the Unmasked podcast and find Ian on Substack. He has written a whole book on the actual data.
Additionally, we used to know how important facial expressions were to human communication. Especially those of us with hearing impairments. But, nah, who cares about that anymore.
The NIH and CDC have been manipulating data from the very start. Never believe anything they ever say again.
I found a pre-pandemic paper about the use of surgical masks for influenza. The looked at both the getting or giving influenza. It made no difference. Now it is magic, except when eating. Then risk disappears. Thank you for your clarity.
Covidians abandoned God and therefore required a new deity before whom to genuflect. They won't give up their faith easily, having the conviction of recent converts. As to their studies, all are best seen as apologetics: carefully reasoned arguments proceeding from curated data, all constructed to lead to a preordained conclusion, with the goal of converting the heathen and buttressing the wavering faith of the flock.
Two years of brainwashing and masks seperate critical thinkers from the compliant sheeple.
Just went to my college reunion at an Ivy League institution. Was monitoring their Covid rules because students and staff are required to be boosted, however us visitors had no requirements (otherwise I couldn’t have gone). Of course the day before reunion started they instituted an indoor mask mandate. Needless to say I ignored it and nobody confronted me. But this is a supposedly prestigious scientific institution that still believes in this nonsense.
Indeed. Maskers are just like those romantically scammed women who give their life savings to some guy they got to know on the Internet, without ever meeting him in the flesh, and even when everybody tells them they were duped, showing them irrefutable proof, they won't believe it., and send the scammer even more money, in the hope that somehow this irrational last gesture would prove them right after all. (It happened to someone dear to me, so I know how it looks first hand. II don't know how they call this behaviour in psychology, but the Brits (again) have a very apt expression: throw good money after the bad.)
if you can smell through the mask you are exposed to viral particles. This was always absurd but wtf that’s how you get banned from SM
Masks have become an excellent means of identifying the truly stupid walking amongst us. Perhaps they just hide their mouth breathing. For that at least, I am grateful.
For all the people of the world, I think I speak for many Americans in offering my apologies for the damage our CDC has inflicted on you. We'll fix it soon.
Exactly. The masks are basically ceremonial headgear. An invisible evil spirit is afoot, and we have to do something to ward off possession. The mask scares away the spirit, you see.
If the replicate the study using really scary masks instead of normal masks, I bet they would work better. jk.