No Vaccine for Mass and Mask Hysteria
Politicizing a virus is more likely to blow up than blow over, especially when they can't keep lying and they can't afford to tell the truth.
If Americans are confused about vaccinations and masking, it isn't due to "disinformation" from the Internet, the confusion is generated by the disinformation spewing from the government.
If you get vaccinated, it protects you - maybe. As long as you aren't a "breakout" case, that is.
If you get don't get vaccinated, you are a threat to vaccinated people - wait what? I thought the vaccines protected the vaccinated?
You must wear a mask inside, but a mask only prevents you from spreading the virus, it doesn't protect you from getting it if someone else doesn't wear it. How does that work?
For masks to work, everybody must wear one. OK, this one gets me - if it takes two layers of mask to prevent both transmission AND reception, then why don't those concerned about the virus just wear a double layer mask and leave the rest of us alone?
Masks work - when they are of a proper grade and are properly fitted and worn, but we expect kids who pick their noses and eat boogers to wear masks 6-8 hours a day?
The fact is that both vaccines and masks work - in certain conditions.
The issue is that these particular vaccines appear NOT to be as effective or long lasting as promised, rendering them into therapeutics rather than actual vaccines. Alex Berenson, a journalist who has been on top of the numbers since the pandemic began, has just been permanently banned from Twitter for saying just this. He never said the vaccines don't work and isn't an anti-vaxxer, he is just reporting that the numbers don't bear out the promises.
There are NO long term human studies of any of these particular mRNA generated vaccines - only models. And we all know how accurate the initial models predicting the progress of the virus were, which is to say, not accurate at all.
The fact also remains that people who have had Covid and recovered have up to 27 times the durability of immunity (due to stronger antibody count) than those who get the jab - and yet the demand is that they get vaccinated as well.
Madness.
Masks work only under near perfect circumstances - nobody is arguing that they don't - but there is a huge difference between a surgical team wearing masks in a sterile surgical suite and a second grade kid in Miss Ruth Jones' class wearing one for an entire school day. School Boards all over this nation are acting on conventional wisdom, paranoia and hysterical anecdotal evidence to mandate mask wearing, even though the most recent CDC study, which they tried to bury (called "file drawering"), found there was NO CLEAR BENEFIT in masking vs. no masking.
As I pointed out last week, the FDA labeling requirement for non-surgical (and in many cases, non-medical) grade masks commonly available from Amazon and retail/discount outlets is that they state "This mask is not proven to reduce the transmission of disease."
That more or less makes the masks that are generally available to the public nothing more than placebos suitable for nothing more than virtue signaling.
It hasn't been many months since the Biden government said when we get to 70% vaccination, it is all over - we can go back to normal life.
That was a lie.
Schools are still requiring masks, we are being told that even if we are vaccinated, we still must wear masks and social distance (even those two things have been statistically proven to be totally ineffective).
I can't believe we are still talking about implementing the same lockdown, social distancing, masking and restrictions that didn't work in 2020, and yet here we are.
This whole episode has made a mess of medical, scientific and public health information. It was politicized to win an election and now they don't know what to do, they can't keep lying and they can't tell the truth. Both engender negative consequences.
This entire sordid episode is as much a catastrophic success as Biden's exit from Afghanistan. Both follow the same pattern, they can't keep lying and certainly can't afford to tell the truth.
Both are more likely to blow up than blow over.