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The amount of doctors I've spoken to, that won't even entertain the idea that masks don't work, shows how we got here and what a difficult fight we all have.

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In my professional opinion, wearing masks is very beneficial. I never work without one. It provides very high levels of protection. For professional bank robbers like me, masks are essential.

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Dec 14, 2022Liked by el gato malo

One question to ask mask pushers and adherents: we were never advised to do this at anytime ever until now. So, are they ("experts," those advising) lying now or were they negligent then? It has to be one or the other.

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For Christians the worst betrayal is the "masking as loving thy neighbor." It's just like the example of the alcoholic above. It's not loving to gratify self-delusion. Love is about the good of the other, which is sometimes totally opposed to his sense of emotional validation.

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Sometimes all I can do whilst out running errands is to not rip the mask off some maskidiot’s face and scream at them how pathetic they are. But I’ve grown more in control of my reactions over the past three ridiculous years. Why even bother anymore? They’re hopeless and fearful. Poor dears.

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Curiously, even here in Faucistan (home of NIH), almost nobody wears masks. For that matter, nobody's talking about Covid at all. The county government's still pushing shots and boosters, but even that's become fairly halfhearted and pro-forma; it seems more like a bureaucracy running on autopilot rather than real conviction.

My sense is that last winter really undermined the hysteria. Pretty much everyone here was jabbed, but everyone got it anyway, or at least everyone knows someone who did. So they have direct experience falsifying the "winter of death" nonsense. Nobody's admitting that it was all rubbish. They might, if pressed, handwave about the jabs preventing infections from becoming serious. But mostly they just don't want to talk about it.

Even the local Karenwaffe has moved on. Couple of days ago, they trying to start a campaign to ban sugary snacks in local stores, to save us all from Diabetes 2. They'll always find some reason to be hysterical and controlling. But they seem to have figured out -- or at least intuited -- that Covid doesn't work for that purpose anymore.

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At this point, "Experts agree," in a headline could be replaced with, "Buckle up, buttercup, we are getting ready to haze you with some garbage that doesn't even qualify as pseudoscience."

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Boom! Dr. Ted Noel Demonstrates That Aerosol Will Not Be Stopped by Man

Mask Demo (Quick and Dirty Version)

from Doctor Ted with Careful Consideration for Our Common Concerns

https://rumble.com/v14uuti-mask-demo-quick-and-dirty-version.html

Published May 15, 2022

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

1:10

DR. TED NOEL [wearing a blue surgical mask]: So without further ado let's cut to the chase and take a look at an ordinary surgical mask. And I'm using a vape. [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] As you can see, that vape which has aerosols the same size as covid-19 or larger [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] goes through and around a surgical mask.

[cut]

[wearing a cup mask] Now if we take a cup mask and have a good look at it, here we go. [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] Notice it goes right through the mask easily and goes in every direction. The aerosol is not affected by the mask in any material form.

[cut]

Now we look at surgical mask with a foam strip to protect above and keep my glasses from fogging. [now wearing the surgical mask with foam strip] [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] Lo and behold, the aerosols go all around it. It has no effect on me spreading aerosols to you.

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[in a blue cloth mask] Now a cloth mask I borrowed from my wife. Once again, here we go, boom! Straight through and around. [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the mask and the sides of the mask] It has no effect on the spread of aerosols. They go everywhere.

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[shows package containing Guard mask] And then I went and bought a Guard mask with a high efficiency filter material. That one? Here we go, watch for it. [now wearing in mask] Through and around. [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] It had no effect on the vape aerosol which, remember, is the same size or larger.

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Now I don't have an N95 mask, I have these shop respirators where they could put all kinds of things in them [pointing to filters] but they're like an N95 because when you breathe out everything goes out through a valve. [puts on mask] [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] Guess what? It might protect me from you, it sure isn't going to protect you from me. Let's look at that again. Boom! [puts on mask] [exhales, clouds of white smoke come out of the sides of the mask] Any mask with a button on it has a valve that lets everything go from you to your neighbor. It has no effect on anything.

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I think you can get the picture now. There is absolutely nothing that any of these masks do to protect you from me. And the fact is that unless I have a mask which is fully sealed and where I breathe through the filter material both directions, and I have a really high quality filter, nothing is going to protect in either direction. Because just the same way that the vape went out, around, and through, it will come in, around and through. Aerosols will not be stopped by man.

You don't need a big study. All you need is this [holds up vape] because the aerosol here is actually larger in molecular size than the aerosol from your breath. And because your breath has a smaller tighter aerosol, just because it can't be seen ordinarily, that aerosol will go everywhere. It gets through easier, it gets around easier.

Masks. Guard masks. Cloth masks. What are they good for? Oh, here's what they're good for. If I'm going to cough, they make it so I don't have to do this [coughs into a stack of what appears to be Kleenex] and catch the aerosol. Or here [indicates behind his shoulder]. Or pull out a handkerchief and do it.

They don't work.

Remember, I am a doctor. I do not play one on TV.

5:17

[END OF EXCERPT]

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Dr. Ted Noel's podcast is

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-doctorted-podcast-90466748/episode/episode-35-covidiots-on-parade-105554337/

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No offense to EGM, but I really didn't think I'd be reading yet another article about this after 3 years.

I feel like I'm in a fucking time loop.

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No one cared who I was until I put on the mask

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The Dark Horse podcast had a good take on this the other day. The public health authorities are much like a young man who takes a girl to a scary movie on a date so she will curl up to him looking for protection.

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Very timely. I live in very red county in the south where masking was a thing on a very limited basis. Even then, the vast majority rejected them and local schools never bought into it. Virtually no one wears them now.

Regardless, I am still confronted by the occasional person in a local store doing the double-mask and even the glove thing which still leaves me somewhat speechless. It's worse at places like Costco but still only about five percent.

My personal struggle is at the local gym with a woman and her daughter who come once a week and insist on wearing a big black N95 mask while exercising. Visual evidence suggests that these people share a similar world view but of course polling data does no exist.

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The lady in that first pic - a literal mask “influencer” making 💰💰💰 on them

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If we have to remask at work, I’m getting one like the chick in the first photo and plastering my organization’s logo all over it.

And adding Darth Vader inhale-exhale sound effects.

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Dec 14, 2022·edited Dec 14, 2022

In the big picture, we've normalized mental illness.

Afraid you could catch a disease? I must wear a mask.

Unsure of your gender? I must make sure I use your correct pronouns and accept your daily chosen gender.

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Nothing matters until Congress forces testimony from CDC to present evidence provoking that masks have utility in slowing or stopping the spread. They might ask others to show that masks aren't effective and require the CDC to agree or disagree showing their work. Congress must then require the CDC to issue guidance on masking.

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