The thing is, it doesn't matter why they lied about masks. They were either lying then, or are lying now. But they. LIED. Which makes them untrustworthy for any further information.
After flying last July, I made a vow *never* to fly again as long as there are any kinds of requirements for medical devices or shots or anything else. When I did fly last July, as someone who absolutely can't stand pretzels, it took me 2 hours to eat 10 little tiny pretzels and drink a tiny cup of water. I'm sure glad the masked, goggled and gloved lady sitting in front of me quite literally used 3 of the "sanitizing wipes" to wipe down every single area where she was sitting while looking at me like I was evil because I wasn't going through the same ritual. If she hadn't of done all of that, I'm sure everyone on the flight would be dead by now...
So I monitor government auctions for my job, and I can tell you that over the last 6 months or so, pallets and pallets of thousands of masks & other PPE are languishing in warehouses all over the country. Yours to buy for pennies on the dollar. All at taxpayers expense. Also, every couple of weeks or so, on other private auctions, you can buy your very own mask production facility somewhere in the US. The middle is getting bored of this.
A little story about the evils of masking. I was traveling thru a state where there is a mask mandate. I went into a grocery store to use the bathroom. A masked woman exiting the bathroom as I was going in said "Hello!" really loudly to me and then grabbed my arm in a death grip and would not let go and was very strong. After trying to get her off I told her that if she didn't let go she was going to be pulling back a stump. She let go and then ran into a stall. I went into a stall and was freaked out and hoping she would leave before I got out. Then she wailed "Mother?"
The problem with masks is that you cannot read people properly. The part about disconnection because of masks is a real thing. We behave differently. If that woman were unmasked I am certain I would have understood that she was challenged and would have listened to her and helped her. It is my nature. Or not. Because I left her there. Normal me wouldn't have. When I got back to the car my husband said you are still wearing the mask. I took it off and he said "what's wrong?".
My research team and I cited over 200 studies from the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature showing that masks do not protect against either viral or bacterial pathogens (either the wearer or others), and that they cause harms, from primarily particulate inhalation, bacterial incubation and hypoxia/hypercapnia. Those five articles are in Volume 1 of https://PDMJ.org.
How crazy were we to “theorize” that “two weeks to flatten the curve” would become vaxx mandates/passports and “quarantine camps”?
We were completely in tin-foil-hat territory predicting that “safe and effective” would become an endless series of “boosters” of a useless and dangerous “holy water”, leaving shocking death and injury in its wake.
I’m hoping “the center” tunes into those who have been consistently right and turns away from the always-wrong “public health leaders” and craven politicians.
You would think that if they wanted to show how important masking on planes was they could show at least one instance of a superspreader event from a flight. Just one. Unfortunately that's the legacy of the covid response. Institute measures based on panic, then never come back and do a rational evaluation of whether the measures were either necessary or effective.
Last night, we attended a holiday music performance at my son's high school. First one in 2 years. The choir had to perform fully mask, ed. It was one of the single most upsetting things that I've seen during this mask hysteria. Their voices were muffled so that we couldn't understand the words that they were singing. Their eyes were sad and despondent.
My son is in the band; plays trumpet. Initially, they had the students cut holes in the masks so that they could fit their mouthpiece through the hole. When this didn't work, they (being the horrible Oregon authorities) graciously allowed the students to pull down their masks only when actively playing. So, throughout the concert, you have musicians constantly touching their masks by pulling them up/down, up/down, up/down.
Oregon now wants to make the indoor mask mandate permanent. If you can object to this (even being outside Oregon as a potential tourist), I beg you to log an objection once the public commenting period is open (assuming it does open). We are planning to move out of Oregon once he graduates.
I’m going to be flying tomorrow. It’s been almost a year since my last flight. I keep wondering if I should write “FJB” on my mask while flying to see if they make me take it off.
I never trusted the people telling us to mask/isolate/sanitize from the get-go and never did any of it. Always questioned every bit of info (SO well planned with all the "we are in this together " and "in these unprecedented times" thrown at you every time one turned on any type of media) Never sat well in my gut and instincts. Thank god I found Rational Ground and Frontline Drs. and El Gato early on. Proved my instincts were correct all along. (Cat trait).
Yeah, not only do masks not pass the pretzels-on-a-plane test, but the "any kind of mask will do, just make it masky!" makes it pretty apparent this lacks substance. (Very similar to "mix and match! any vaccine will do, just as long as you get one!")
Not that I want them requiring N95s, but "reckless" to expose your nostrils and mouth and yet totally and completely safe to come in wearing the mask you've created on your sewing machine? If this were truly a dangerous virus and masks were effective, they'd be tacking on a small surcharge and handing out approved masks before entering the airport. (Again, I hate to think I'm giving anyone ideas, but the level of hyperbole surrounding this is absurd-- is pulling up my neck gaiter really saving lives?)
I went to Twitter to ask the illustrious liar why we are told to trust previous mRNA technology but NOT allowed to trust all the studies prior to April 2020 that said masks don’t stop airborne viruses but found that, he was scared of a little old stay at home mom and blocked me.
The one line I've loved (in a hysterical, our education system is damning us sort of way) from the beginning is "science changes as knowledge grows." To which my answer is three questions: How long have we had fabric? How long have we had illnesses? And we never thought before now to use the fabric over our mouths to fight the illnesses?
He seems like a nice guy. I wished him success. He lost me though... when in February 2020 he talked about washing all of his groceries and other items as they came into his home. HE WAS SANITIZING BAGS OF BREAD AND CANS OF SOUP!!
The thing is, it doesn't matter why they lied about masks. They were either lying then, or are lying now. But they. LIED. Which makes them untrustworthy for any further information.
After flying last July, I made a vow *never* to fly again as long as there are any kinds of requirements for medical devices or shots or anything else. When I did fly last July, as someone who absolutely can't stand pretzels, it took me 2 hours to eat 10 little tiny pretzels and drink a tiny cup of water. I'm sure glad the masked, goggled and gloved lady sitting in front of me quite literally used 3 of the "sanitizing wipes" to wipe down every single area where she was sitting while looking at me like I was evil because I wasn't going through the same ritual. If she hadn't of done all of that, I'm sure everyone on the flight would be dead by now...
So I monitor government auctions for my job, and I can tell you that over the last 6 months or so, pallets and pallets of thousands of masks & other PPE are languishing in warehouses all over the country. Yours to buy for pennies on the dollar. All at taxpayers expense. Also, every couple of weeks or so, on other private auctions, you can buy your very own mask production facility somewhere in the US. The middle is getting bored of this.
A little story about the evils of masking. I was traveling thru a state where there is a mask mandate. I went into a grocery store to use the bathroom. A masked woman exiting the bathroom as I was going in said "Hello!" really loudly to me and then grabbed my arm in a death grip and would not let go and was very strong. After trying to get her off I told her that if she didn't let go she was going to be pulling back a stump. She let go and then ran into a stall. I went into a stall and was freaked out and hoping she would leave before I got out. Then she wailed "Mother?"
The problem with masks is that you cannot read people properly. The part about disconnection because of masks is a real thing. We behave differently. If that woman were unmasked I am certain I would have understood that she was challenged and would have listened to her and helped her. It is my nature. Or not. Because I left her there. Normal me wouldn't have. When I got back to the car my husband said you are still wearing the mask. I took it off and he said "what's wrong?".
See? I will never wear another mask.
My research team and I cited over 200 studies from the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature showing that masks do not protect against either viral or bacterial pathogens (either the wearer or others), and that they cause harms, from primarily particulate inhalation, bacterial incubation and hypoxia/hypercapnia. Those five articles are in Volume 1 of https://PDMJ.org.
How crazy were we to “theorize” that “two weeks to flatten the curve” would become vaxx mandates/passports and “quarantine camps”?
We were completely in tin-foil-hat territory predicting that “safe and effective” would become an endless series of “boosters” of a useless and dangerous “holy water”, leaving shocking death and injury in its wake.
I’m hoping “the center” tunes into those who have been consistently right and turns away from the always-wrong “public health leaders” and craven politicians.
You would think that if they wanted to show how important masking on planes was they could show at least one instance of a superspreader event from a flight. Just one. Unfortunately that's the legacy of the covid response. Institute measures based on panic, then never come back and do a rational evaluation of whether the measures were either necessary or effective.
Last night, we attended a holiday music performance at my son's high school. First one in 2 years. The choir had to perform fully mask, ed. It was one of the single most upsetting things that I've seen during this mask hysteria. Their voices were muffled so that we couldn't understand the words that they were singing. Their eyes were sad and despondent.
My son is in the band; plays trumpet. Initially, they had the students cut holes in the masks so that they could fit their mouthpiece through the hole. When this didn't work, they (being the horrible Oregon authorities) graciously allowed the students to pull down their masks only when actively playing. So, throughout the concert, you have musicians constantly touching their masks by pulling them up/down, up/down, up/down.
Oregon now wants to make the indoor mask mandate permanent. If you can object to this (even being outside Oregon as a potential tourist), I beg you to log an objection once the public commenting period is open (assuming it does open). We are planning to move out of Oregon once he graduates.
I’m going to be flying tomorrow. It’s been almost a year since my last flight. I keep wondering if I should write “FJB” on my mask while flying to see if they make me take it off.
I never trusted the people telling us to mask/isolate/sanitize from the get-go and never did any of it. Always questioned every bit of info (SO well planned with all the "we are in this together " and "in these unprecedented times" thrown at you every time one turned on any type of media) Never sat well in my gut and instincts. Thank god I found Rational Ground and Frontline Drs. and El Gato early on. Proved my instincts were correct all along. (Cat trait).
How many masks should be worn to become "fully masked"?
Yeah, not only do masks not pass the pretzels-on-a-plane test, but the "any kind of mask will do, just make it masky!" makes it pretty apparent this lacks substance. (Very similar to "mix and match! any vaccine will do, just as long as you get one!")
Not that I want them requiring N95s, but "reckless" to expose your nostrils and mouth and yet totally and completely safe to come in wearing the mask you've created on your sewing machine? If this were truly a dangerous virus and masks were effective, they'd be tacking on a small surcharge and handing out approved masks before entering the airport. (Again, I hate to think I'm giving anyone ideas, but the level of hyperbole surrounding this is absurd-- is pulling up my neck gaiter really saving lives?)
I went to Twitter to ask the illustrious liar why we are told to trust previous mRNA technology but NOT allowed to trust all the studies prior to April 2020 that said masks don’t stop airborne viruses but found that, he was scared of a little old stay at home mom and blocked me.
The one line I've loved (in a hysterical, our education system is damning us sort of way) from the beginning is "science changes as knowledge grows." To which my answer is three questions: How long have we had fabric? How long have we had illnesses? And we never thought before now to use the fabric over our mouths to fight the illnesses?
I feel like I'm living in the movie "Idiocracy."
He seems like a nice guy. I wished him success. He lost me though... when in February 2020 he talked about washing all of his groceries and other items as they came into his home. HE WAS SANITIZING BAGS OF BREAD AND CANS OF SOUP!!
Makes me think of the experts about the Titanic - unsinkable. Sank on maidentrip. Oh oh those experts are so good.