i see we have now entered the "performative pseudoscience is respect for others" stage of the pandemic. buckle up, the final spasms of those seeking to retain authority and credibility as the edifice of covidian impositions crumbles to dust will be pretty spectacular.
it is legitimately depressing to see a former US surgeon general (even who has been a one note flute of unsupported claims and covid histrionics) lose the plot so completely that there is no longer even a pretense of science and data driven analysis. but, alas, this is what medical messaging in america has come to.
this is not public health, it’s facile and assumptive claims about failed NPI’s using emotional corner cases and vapid, accusatory moralizing to justify having adopted stances rooted in talismanic superstition and supported by actual, unequivocal fraud.
to be making appeals to CDC authority on masks at this stage in the game is hallucinatory. they have so thoroughly discredited themselves on masks as to leave little doubt they are either incapable of basic science or so fully political captures as to amount to the same. (receipts HERE)
but this will not dissuade jerome “swiss cheese” adams who seems determined to sink to new depths of grandstanding and societal harm to inject enough squid ink into the water to escape the culpability that’s coming.
it was all made up and justified with fraudy studies lacking controls, valid clinical outcomes makers, cherry picked data, and outright fabrication.
and yet still, jerome is ascribing a moral duty of compassion to me to undertake this purported mitigation out of “respect.”
respect for what?
respect for the superstitions of others about non-effective covid interventions?
this is not “respect” it’s “enabling.”
so doing does not render them safe, it invite them to unwitting self-harm because people like jerry have lied to them. this is literally giving them sugar pills alleged to prevent rashes then sending them out to play in the poison sumac.
that’s not good advice. and it’s why we do not give advice like that.
foremost, if others are vulnerable then we need to provide real protection, not the illusion of safety.
a false football helmet is worse than none at all. you’ll behave as if you are protected when you are not. you’re going to get your head split open.
what would be the moral duty on a football field if you saw another player walk out onto the gridiron with a helmet made of old cereal boxes? would it not be to warn them that this was not going to protect their head?
would not ignoring this until the damage occurred constitute the real lapse of moral duty?
adams has severely inverted the sense of duty here.
this idea that validating people’s choices to engage in riskier behavior because they have deluded themselves into an illusory sense of safety is outright anathema to their well being.
claiming it as a foundation for public health and social duty is misanthropic madness. you are putting them at terrible risk by buttressing their misapprehensions about their level of protection.
the whole thing represents an absurd jump of logic that boils down to “allow the unprotected to feel protected, because, respect.”
but this is not respect. it is predation.
it is difficult to conceive of a practice more inimical to their ongoing health.
undeterred, jerome tries to go further and casts this as supporting their “emotional well being” and frames your failure to mask as some sort of micro-aggression.
this is a gruesome derailment of the notion of public health into the precincts of post-rational emotionalism and grievance grubbing.
sorry, amigo, but my rights, liberties, and well being to not stop where your invoked frailty begins.
this is the road to “tyranny of the superstitious hypochondriacs” and to “rule by the anxious and performatively plaintive.”
and again, every single thing about this statement is wrong.
this idea that we must all accommodate the expressed emotional fears of the most frightened is not a basis for society. it has never been so. it cannot be so.
perhaps i get anxious whenever anyone stands within 20 feet of me. shall we arrange every grocery store and manhattan sidewalk such that i am never made uneasy?
and what of the comfort of the agoraphobe who needs close proximity to feel safe?
are not our needs in inherent opposition? whose shall have primacy? and why do you get to pick?
you act as though wearing a mask is not unpleasant or that people do not find being around masked people threatening, alienating, or that masking carries no costs in terms of health, social function, and child development. yet it does.
you take one tiny subset of people and take their purported needs to be swaddled in emotional support that will literally increase their actual risk by inducing inapt behavior and try to use this to stand for the whole of human interest because the narrative you’ve spun for years is now falling apart and not even the partisan propaganda mill at CDC will support you anymore. this is as desperate as it is damaging.
making an immunocompromised 4 year old and their mom “feel better” by masking in stores when doing so affords them no protection but instead places them at greater risk because of a false sense of safety does not help them. it leads them to make bad choices that result in bad outcomes so that you can enjoy the frisson of “having stood for them.”
you are sacrificing their health upon the altar of your vanity and desire to virtue signal as their “champion.”
you are inviting and enabling them to engage in self harm so you can feel good about yourself.
this is not the moral high ground nor is it a basis for public health.
our duty to such people is to tell them the truth such that they make make informed decisions. that is everywhere and always the only valid purpose of public health.
the fact that you and others like you have forgotten this and become so caught up in manipulation, nudging, and dishonest messaging is why no one trusts you anymore.
you have done more than enough damage.
so just stop.
it’s time to stop scrabbling for relevance and say “buy-bye.”
As the mother of an immuno-compromised child (now an adult), I resent using this as a reason to stifle everyone’s freedom. Over the years did I wish that parents keep their kids home from school when they were sick? Sure. It would have meant fewer sick days for mine. But illness is a fact of life. If it’s not Covid it’s something else. None of these protocols have been “about the children.” If they were concerned about kids, they’d have kept the schools open. This is about conditioning people so they don’t notice their freedoms being incrementally taken away.
My immunocompromised 4 year old is now 7. I hate when people weaponize immunocompromised children for their political battles. It’s so sleazy and pathetic. And never once has my child gotten sick from a grocery store.
And, my guess is, no one cared enough to wear a mask around them before Covid. I see a number of people on social media expressing how much they suddenly “care.” Maybe the silver lining is people will better understand that when these kids get a cold it hits them harder. In the course of my child’s schooling, not many teachers were sympathetic.
My son was actually kicked out of two different private school. No sympathy for a kid with post-infectious brain inflammation. The real kicker is when he got COVID in January, it was a non event for him. He recovered better than anyone else in the family.
I’m sorry about the private school thing. Great news on the Covid front, though! My daughter has T1D. She was the only one who didn’t get sick with Covid at work, ended up having to cover for people at two locations. I’m hoping she remains healthy.
Connie - you deserve a platinum medal. Seriously. I take care of immunocompromised patients and all of this time, even including Covid, they got busy LIVING. They knew they were at risk but they already understood that their life was not guaranteed with their illness so they LIVED. They took care of kids, their elderly loved ones, they worked, and they travelled.
Now, some are using the immunocompromised status as an excuse to keep this charade going.
Do people think we didn’t have immunocompromised patients before Covid came along?
Good for you. I have to say that I think you are in the minority. I was in a group with a lady who said she had an immuno-compromised teenager and expected us to mask up around her even though her child wasn't there. But we also saw her without a mask plenty of times. It was so hypocritical of her. She called my teenager plenty of horrible things because we didn't agree with her idea that we should all compromise ourselves (with masks, vaccines, etc.) for her child, whom we never saw.
You are so right. I remember parents not keeping their sick kids home because the parents didn’t want to take a day off work. One time a mom bought her child that had been vomiting into school after lunch because then it was exactly 24 hours since the child had last gotten sick. And she was a nurse.
Connie, you are one of a few women I know who value liberty. Most of our half of te species does not. It is not in our natures. So my sincere admiration and thanks.
Country moms used to get all the kids sick at once with chickenpox to get it over with for all and gain immunity...an entirely different attitude that works with the situation at hand instead of trying to control it. Permaculture vs monoculture.
Soon the CDC will recommend healing crystals—touting a dodgy study from Astrology Today—and their power to assuage the fears of the credulous and craven.
As soon as a pharma corporation patents a healing crystal they will become "safe and effective". Anyone saying otherwise will need to be banned from twitter, facebook, CNN, NYT et al for spreading deadly dangerous misinformation.
Great post. It sounds really cold to say, but there's literally nothing any one of us can do to save someone from themselves. If there's one theme I've noticed over the last 2 years is the "blame game" where we point to someone who either isn't "with the program" for anything that happens to us. The "I'm a victim" mantra has gone to levels I never thought possible. I was shunned very early on in this 15 days to flatten the curve for saying, "If I happen upon you after a terrible car accident and you are bleeding out, I will render aid to the best of my ability, but I am NOT going to do something that hurts myself to make someone else feel better or "safer". Nope. It's not my responsibility to worry about everyone else and what they think of me. If someone is 200 pounds overweight should I eat 3 big macs and "super size" the fries to make them feel better about their choices/situation? Sorry. Not gonna happen. Call me a hater, but one of my favorites testimonials I heard some months back: A guy was in a store without a face diaper and a Karen started shrieking at him about it and said, "well, it's obvious you don't care about me!". The man replied, "you're right, I don't." I know the way he meant that and I agree. Human beings fail each other at every turn. If we are looking for other people to keep us healthy, safe, fed, clothed, housed, etc. We will ALWAYS be very disappointed. I look out for me and the people I love. And that's all any of us can realistically do.
I was one of the ones at the very beginning who would not mask and *gasp* went the wrong way on the one-way aisles in the stores. OMG, the abuse I took from women and only women! They would gang up on me when I was just trying to shop as quickly as possible and stay out of everyone's way. These people were relentless in their stupidity. I might add I'm retired from medical field and knew that masks were useless prior to the 'pandemic'.
In the fall of 2020 I stopped at a rest area to use the head. There was one other car in the parking area. I walked maskless by the DOT sign telling me to mask up. Of course, the other driver was using one of the two urinals. I started to use the other and he looked over the barrier between the two. Then he tapped his mask and pointed to my maskless face shaking his head in disapproval. I smiled as I zipped up and said "I'm glad you agree with me that masks don't work." I could see his disapproving eyes suddenly change to puzzlement and so continued. "If you thought they did work then you would know that we are both safe while together even if only one of us is wearing a mask!" I left as he was standing there trying to figure this out.
i, too, was shunned early on for saying essentially the same thing: that I will not forgo my own needs in order to save someone else. that's the heart of codependency and self-abandonment, and I refuse to play that game anymore. I will give and help from overflow, and no more. People were suuuuper offended by that one. It cost me a bunch of friends. But I stand by it.
I came to this thinking later in the pandemic. As someone who’s had relationships with people with addictions, I started realizing what was going on when an (apparently?) immunocompromised “friend” started guilting me for not vaxxing, implying I was putting her and her daughter at risk. Her daughter and my daughter are friends and she’s no longer allowed at my house cause of our vax status! But: She Goes To School while the mom enjoys her housewife life and the dad makes a shit ton from home high up at Amazon. HE works for Amazon while SHE shops from there and preaches about collective values and ”community”…ha!!…while now shunning us who have not vaxxed. I started thinking from my al anon days that it’s important to take care of ME first. She didn’t much like this way of thinking—-something about “but the COLLECTIVE!”…and we haven’t spoken since. I’m still pissed 🤣…can you tell?!
Well put. I totally agree with and share your sentiments. I have lost friends and a few family members over this devisive virus. I sometimes think that a lot of vaccinated people are angry for the failure of the so called vaccines and are taking it out on those like myself who chose not to take part in this experiment. I followed the Canadian Truck convoy on different media and there was a small counter protest in Ottawa. It was a Karen Fest. All masked up outdoors and carrying signs. One sign actually said all the unvaccinated people should die! Not one comment about this hateful rhetoric on mainstream media. Except for the first few months when the pandemic was declared, I have never been overly worried or frightened of covid. However, some of the unhinged vaccinated people terrify me.
Those people that rant that all unvax should die terrifies me. Just saw a video of a 22 year old that got so messed up after one shot. And does the medical community help? No they suggest he has anxiety. I feel so bad for him and others that have suffered. Now should he “die” cuz he’s not fully vaxxed? If he gets another one he might very well die. But they are compassionate for wearing masks? Let’s ask the good doctor how he will help these people that have been injured by the jab.
If there were something we could do to save somebody from themselves we would not have drug addicts living on our streets today. Instead some try and the end result seems to be create even more addicts.
Victim-hood is destructive ideology. Allowing yourself to blame others removes the incentive to be responsible for yourself. It allows others to control you. As a vulnerable senior it's my job to avoid getting ill, not societies.
I don't know about others controlling them. They seem to use it to control others. "Oh, poor pitiful me, I can't (fill in the blank), would you please do/go/give, so I can (fill in the blank)." You can only take so much of that controlling behavior before it drives you crazy, because it's not every so often, it's All. The. Time.
A clarification: I know some people DO have real physical or mental limitations. I don't mind helping people that truly need help. (Although, sometimes they can also overstep boundries.) If you really know these people you can tell the difference.
Somewhat like the charities I support. Some of them clearly share lists so I am deluged with mail requests that fill my bin. And like the internet ads that arrive after I buy something as if I bought one, clearly I must need more of the same. It obviously must work on some, go figure.
Of course, the ones who shriek the loudest, "you don't care about me!" are all over the twitter threads wishing death (or worse) on the people who don't care about them. Whatever you believe or don't about the science™, it's kinda hard to claim the high road when you're not even going to consider taking it unless the other guy goes first.
I remember a friend was grocery shopping and a lady freaked out cuz he was going the “wrong way” down the aisle. She was just as close to the people going the “right way.” Seems so crazy now.
I walked backwards down the one-way aisle with my cart facing the right direction. When you stop to make a selection, no one knows what direction you were going two seconds earlier.
My office lifted their mask mandate last week. The email sent by HR admonished those of us choosing to take our masks off, to please be considerate and patient with those who continue to wear masks, and if we come upon a masked coworker, to put our mask back on.
This is NOT respectful. We respect people by telling them the truth.
This is the very same thing that has been going on with political correctness, hate speech, transgenders in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, using the preferred pronoun, taking a knee and microaggressions. All of it is the same, reinforcing a form of mental illness, and all of it needs to end now.
Yes, I am seeing a lot of language about "being patient with those who choose to mask and not bullying or ostracizing them." Oh? You mean like has been done to those who have called foul on the masking thing from the beginning? That kind of bullying which gets a person called "grandma killer?"
‘… to please be considerate and patient with those who continue to wear masks, and if we come upon a masked coworker, to put our mask back on.‘
So a masked co-worker is not required to be considerate and take their mask off for you? This consideration and respect malarky is not for everyone, just for the chosen.
The default is Humans do not wear masks. Mask wearers should conform to the norm.
I have found it very alienating to be surrounded by a sea of mask wearers. My default is to smile and have my smile returned. A brainwashed friend told me, "but you smile with your EYES...." and no, actually.... you really don't. I like to be able to read the full expression on someone's face. I mean, who doesn't???? Otherwise, we might as well be robots and not humans.
My experience is you can only read the eye expressions of your closest friends and not well, at that. So smiling through masks as you pass a stranger in the hall way? Could look threatening or leery to them.
My office tried to do one in 2020. me and my 77 year old employee refused. Slowly the rest of the office joined us. A month later it was completey ignored.
It should have ended years ago. --- If you don't act/speak as they want you are harrassed endlessly forever.....BUT that's ok, 'cause it's you, not them.
One day in the fall of 2020, I came across a woman wearing a shirt that said, in large letters, "if you can read this, you're standing too close." I could read it from about 50 feet away. So your analogy of how ridiculous it would be to create a 20-foot buffer to alleviate somebody's anxiety is, if anything, a conservative approximation to actual hysteria that I have witnessed.
Not to mention that this woman was walking along a sidewalk in a densely populated urban area. The arrogance of somebody who would claim some kind of moralistic dominion over a 100-foot diameter of public space is absolutely stunning.
My fiancé wanted to walk around with a tape measured extended to six feet to measure distance and keep people away to show how ridiculous the whole thing is. I still think he should have done it to mock the Karens.
I wonder if people like Jerome will ever realize the damage they've done to tens of millions of Americans through their lies and manipulation. Indoor mask mandate ended here in Illinois today, yet at the grocery store this morning (where I haven't worn a mask the entire 6 months of the mandate) the 5 other customers I saw were all wearing masks and almost all of the employees were still masked.
People like Jerome created an unrealistic level of fear of Covid in people and pointed to the mask as their savior. After two years of relentlessly pummeling that message into people's heads is it any wonder there will still be a ton of people masking for months if not years to come? Jerome helped create a massive mental illness problem and those like him need to be reminded of that every second of every day.
"I wonder if... Jerome will ever realize..." Nope -- it would require a sense of self-awareness that these people do not have. They are the all-knowing, all-powerful Oz... they don't even bother saying "Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain."
"This is not public health, it’s facile and assumptive claims about failed NPI’s using emotional corner cases and vapid, accusatory moralizing to justify having adopted stances rooted in talismanic superstition and supported by actual, unequivocal fraud"
This Sunday at Mass our pastor said he was considering burning the masks for ashes on Wednesday. Everyone applauded, even though it was a bit sacrilegious. :D
It's basic CIA training and so well known inside the Beltway there's even a souvenier mug, hoodie, tote bag series in CIA gift shop. Yes you need clearance for the gift shop. :~)
"Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations."
If Dr. Adams is so concerned about the immunocompromised then I'm sure prior to 2020 he always wore a mask as well. After all, someone with a defective immune system could just as easily be killed by H1N1 as he could by SARS-CoV-2. And if Dr. Adams didn't, well, just how many people have you killed with your negligence Dr. Adams?
Yes, already in NZ the PM is talking about keeping some restrictions as we go into winter seeing as the cases of flu dropped during the last two winters due to everybody masking and being confined etc.
Same here in British Columbia, Canada. Our health czar is already talking about respiratory season. Hint. We used to call it Fall and Winter. Bet we'll be masked up by then. Actually we are still masked up and in this province there isn't even a date to stop wearing them. We'll be lucky if at some point we get a tiny respite from wearing them.
Yes, Winter is now FLU season! People here in NZ are so inspired by Canadians! At our protests, many people wave your flag in solidarity. (MSM 'interpret' this as being proof we are controlled by overseas evil people blah blah!) I have visited your beautiful country several times and hope to return some time soon.
Off topic: but police in riot gear have now moved into parliament area where the main protest is based and started smashing and removing tents and gear, pepper spraying etc
The CDC did not drop them all and left them on the table for the future. They never actually admitted they don't work. They just sort of hoped we would not notice that omission.
Excellent piece! This cat can write. As I told my priest when he asked why I find masking so objectionable, "it forces me to lie to others." I believe that is known as "bearing false witness." I will not do it anymore.
What sort of irresponsible mother would take her immunocompromised to the grocery store, and especially in doing so think she can rely on the “masks” of others to protect her kid?
That sort of entitled dimwittery is a big, big social problem.
What underpins the stupid of these nitwits is ignorance and inability to think and reason. If ‘immunosuppressed’ 4 year olds are so vulnerable they should not be out of doors at all - or wearing a hazmat suit - because if they are ‘vulnerable’ to one respiratory virus, they will be vulnerable to them all, plus a whole range of other viruses and disease-causing bacteria. It’s not the particular pathogen that makes them ‘vulnerable’ it’s the failure of their immune system to defend them against invading pathogens, in which case pathogens harmless in most people can be fatal in the immunosuppressed. Nobody died FROM HIV, they died of other opportunistic infections because their immune system stopped working because of the HIV. And repeat vaccination can do what HIV does - screw up the immune system.
Your comments seem mostly correct. However, your comment about HIV may not be true. RFK Jr. "The Real Anthony Fauci" covers in detail the twisted history of AIDS research and how it was captured by Fauci and other ignoble actors. HIV was basically enshrined as The Cause of AIDS and funding, policy, etc. directed to that end. Problem is, not all scientists agreed. These were de-funded, careers destroyed, and so forth. None of this proves that HIV is not a factor in AIDS, but plenty of people have had AIDS with not a trace of the HIV virus to be found. I'm not saying RFK Jr. (or the authors he cites) are right, but there is plenty to be skeptical about. "Follow the money," and you will find Dr. Fauci lording it over a vast expensive research empire, and nary a dissenting voice to be heard.
Yes boys and girls, that is how "science" is now done, and in fact, has been done for many decades.
NY is dropping their masks for schools the day after Biden's SotU speech. Because today it's unsafe for kids to unmask. Tomorrow it's unsafe for kids to unmask. But the NEXT day, all good.
And listen to the new gov. lay down the law:
"We will not stand for any bullying or ostracization or harassment for an individual or business who chooses to wear a mask as we're still going through this," Hochul said in a statement.
Yes, the real problem this whole time has been unmasked people harassing masked people. That's the ticket!
Yes SimComm. I'm in NY too and you just have to love the timing. That virus continues to be so intelligent in how it can be lethal one day, but not the next. Amazing. Hochul is bullying personified.
Is their rule coming to an end? I really hope so, but these people are nothing if not persistent and cagey. They are distracting everyone with Ukraine/Russia, but they are still plotting.
The entire scamdemic has only made me care much less about strangers. After all, these people cheered for me to be banned from society for choosing to skip a medical treatment that doesn't work.
I haven't worn a mask in public since the summer of 2020.
You should be aware that experts advise against pissing up a rope, and suggest the use of gloves and eye protection in the event that pissing up a rope becomes necessary.
Sadly there is more than digital currency, it embraces the Social Credit Score System. We will all likely lose 173 points for our microaggressions against Jerome's selfish stupidity.
No difference as a health measure but then nothing COVID has been about health and nefarious agendas abound so "success" is a different metric for passport advocates.
When Mike Yeadon predicted that over a year ago, not seeing all that has happened now in between, and still being accurate, while being called worse than Alex Jones for it, I guess all the disctractions used as justification aren't really all that important.
The frustrating thing is that Joe and Jane Normie still don't get it. But they also buy the utter failure and worse of the injections as "well, this pesky virus is soooo extra bad, that must be it. So I guess boosters every couple months are necessary. Do the right thing. *zombie noises*"
Report on Attorney Todd Callender’s Jan. 30, 2022 interview by Dr. Elizabeth Vliet Lee.
Callender’s main point is that the powers-that-be have been building legal systems gradually over the past 30 years (executive orders, regulatory amendments to legislative statutes, and court precedents) to enable and protect the whole complex web of insanity that’s become painfully visible to many of us in the last two years.
Outline:
-Brief Analysis
-1990 - Three United Nations conventions
-2005 - The Owners, through the World Health Organization, create International Health Regulations
-2003, 2005 and 2014 - US Presidents’ Executive Orders listing quarantinable communicable diseases
-2017 - Major rulemaking by US Department of Health and Human Services
-Cumulative legal effect of International Health Regulations (IHR) and implementing national regulations and executive orders
-2013 - US Intellectual Property and Patent Law; Title 35 U.S.C. 101
-2020 — Clinical Treatment Protocol and Financial Coercion of Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses
-2008 — Merger of public health with law enforcement
-Pennsylvania case study; how the IHR voids constitutional and statutory law and underpins public health martial law.
-Ransom demand from World Health Organization to G20.
-World Health Organization now working toward an expansion of the 2005 International Health Regulations
I suffer from koumpounophobia. People who don’t respect my mental health condition and wear clothing with buttons are just plain scumbags. I think I might start tweeting aggressively about it. 🤔
The first time I head this guy speak, and this was when he was still opposing masks, I could see that he was a lightweight. Another epically failed personnel choice by the Donald.
We have to admit, Donald's personnel choices were terrible starting with surrounding himself with family members as top advisors. No one should kid themselves - Ivanka and Jared would step over the average MAGA voter lying on the ground. They are thoroughly elite. I also recognize that he had few people willing to work for his administration.
And he has given us no good reason to think that he has learned from these mistakes, or that we can expect anything different if he gets elected again. Voted for him twice. That's enough for me.
And he had a lot of bad advice. Fedgov is much bigger than Trump Enterprises, he was out of his comfort zone with all those hires -- in a town known as 'The Swamp.'
He also throws in the reference to vax status. Again, totally irrelevant to the discussion about reasons to mask. It's totally misleading and gives people a false sense of security when you characterize people by their vax status- vaxxed people can be infected and transmit as readily as unvaxxed. A way better question (but again one I wouldn't advocate) would be to ask if a person had natural immunity. But the real fallback for showing respect to others is not to go out in public if you know you're sick and contagious.
This is one of the most harmful lies of this entire fraud: that unvaccinated people are toxic and filthy and to be shunned. This has divided people -- and plenty of brainwashed people I know (and love) continue to believe this lie. It allows vaccine passports to persist: I still can't attend concerts or plays or go to sporting events because I do not have a vaccine card. The vaccinated people like this policy because "it's no big deal" to show your card, and "I just feel safer, knowing I'm surrounded by responsible, vaccinated people." Often unspoken, but thought, is that unvaxxed people are probably Trumpers (wrongthink). Sometimes that's true, but very often not true. Vaccinated people like to assume without really thinking deeply. Every day, I learn of a new friend or neighbor who has been injured by their vaxx. It's so awful.
Even if you were a nurse (or maybe you are?) they wouldn't see it as a problem, regardless of staffing shortages, which were already rampant before the pandemic. There's a whole lot of cognitive dissonance going on and just as much scapegoating, so people like us are fair game atm. We don't deserve to feed or shelter ourselves, much less to receive medical care or be allowed to sit with a dying parent. I wish this were a simulation, but the evil seems all too real.
I'm in the same boat as you. It's funny how eating in a restaurant or going to any public venue has gone from being a right to a " privilege". I can't even get on a plane in Canada to travel within my own country.
I'm one of the few people I know who's unvaxxed. I'm also one of the few people I know who has not gotten the 'rona. Most of the people I know who are triple vaxxed have had it something fierce and most of them tested negative. (Chris Masterjohn just wrote about this over on his substack: https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/p/a-brand-new-study-on-pcr-negative?utm_source=url) I think what you say about vaccinated people assuming without thinking deeply is very often the reason they were able to subject themselves to the vax in the first place. But several I know did it just so they could be with family, which seems like the sanest reason to get it... I just pray that they will be okay.
You know Nancy, they found out all the way back with the Diamond Princess that ~81% of folks had a degree of cross-immunity against SARS-CoV-2 resulting from previous coronavirus infections. You are probably one of those, who had strong immunity. Others had partial immunity, got sick but not that bad.
Still though 'they' deny natural immunity... if I was a kitten, I might ask why... kittens after all have not yet had the life experience to develop cynicism.
Funny thing is, I almost never get colds or flu (except that one time I got the flu vaccine)... usually when I feel something coming on, I pound the zinc, vit C, echinacea and such and it's gone by the next morning. I guess childhood set my immune system up well... we played in dirt and put things in our mouths that hadn't been disinfected ... oh, and we didn't have 78 childhood vaccines on the schedule back then, either. 🤔 But yes, I think a little kitten-like curiosity would do the world a lot of good... which is probably why certain elements are trying so hard to kill it.
Most of the people I know are unvaxxed. Most haven't gotten sick, others got sick real early on and are fine now. The vaxxed I know also haven't gotten sick, but a few since the vaxx just don't feel well. ...chronically tired, headaches, some with heart problems.
Oof. Yeah, this is what I fear. I just assumed that so many vaxxed (that I know) were getting sick because they were running around enjoying the "privileges" that those in power had so generously handed back to the compliant. For instance, one caught covid in a mosh pit full of other vaxxed folks, who are the only ones allowed to attend concerts here. So I figured most just got a little reckless because they were ready to get back to life and assumed they were safe because the science™ told them so (and once you hear what you want to hear, by all means, stop listening!). But with all this omicron data, I've had to rethink that. I just really, really, really hope that the likelihood of long-term damage from these things wanes right along with their efficacy... and that the scales are pulled from everyone's eyes before the next round of boosters.
I agree, I hope that the long term damage wanes, but I must admit I don't believe it will. The new findings of the mRNA transcribing to DNA a sequence that can cause cancer was just another punch in the gut. 😧
Well, we don't need to unite with them directly. My point is, once we don't hate each other anymore, we will look for the root causes of our misery -- and we might find THEM.
Thank you. One of the reasons I didn’t trust the media is when they said everyone who didn’t want the jab was a trump supporter. I am not so they just pissed me off. I can’t believe how much they divided our country.
"...unaware of my vax status," says Jerome Adams. Remember those good old days when that was our default mode for all vaccines? Man, I miss those days.
The kindness fallacy ticks me off worse than anything. My disabled daughter has been in tears so many times in the past two years because of the masks…not only because they are hard to wear, but its also hard to see other people wear masks.
Assuming mask-wearing shows kindness is a one-dimensional viewpoint that isn’t based on fact.
What a great post, Gato. What an awful woke, manipulative, abusive man, this Jerome Adams. And then to try to beat us over the head with abuse of Jesus’ words……Jesus is not an enabler nor a shamer, nor a guilt-monger.
I just was (re-)listening to an audiobook version of Nietzsche's "The Antichrist," nevertheless, decorum suggests I withhold any comment at this time 😁
Excellent rebuttal to the nonsense. All those dummies wearing cereal box helmets on the gridiron of real life frustrate me. One moment I feel bad that they have been so manipulated then the next moment I'm irritated that in this GREAT first world country where, with a little effort albeit, you can read non propaganda information people are too lazy and foolish to do so. It's outright embarrassing (for them). Folly, folly everywhere. Where have all the problem-solving, go getting, pull yourself up by your bootstrap people gone? They are gave down on their screens reading idiots like those in your stack on Twitter and Facebook or watching inanity and being further manipulated on TikTok. People are so dumbed down they can't see the blatant bs before them. I just want to scream "wake the f up"!
This is so important. I have countless friends that buy into the “mask to show you care about people” narrative, and I’ve been over here feeling pretty lonely saying “I’m pretty sure when you care about people it means you don’t lie to them.”
As a health care professional who goes with the science and therefore finds everything the CDC or Administration says to be ridiculous, I find the recent series of Surgeon Generals to be Circus Clowns. Let's throw into that mix the media whore doctors such as Sanjay Gupta and well you have quite a group. To be kind let us just say that Dr. Adams was chosen neither for his achievements nor his courage. To put a buffoon like Adams in a debate with Peter McCullough or Robert Malone would be beyond cruel.
But entirely fair and televised, though it may be quite short of a debate. Any jabber doc's zombie brain would explode at the mountains of hard won evidence that the good scientists and statiticians have presented....like my jabbed family, they will be crushed IF and when they ever realize....some never, will die of cancer or liver disease and not make the connection. So be it.
I find it troubling that apparent idiots like Jerome are awarded MDs or similar credentials. This says a lot about about the state of training, qualifications and so on in America, and damned little of it is positive.
What a Dick-Head. My child abuse patients and autistic patients suffered in horrendous ways because of these asinine masks. I even had a 15 y/o boy who hung himself in May 2020 because of these wretched masks.
Genome has never shown an ounce of compassion for any of these kids or any respect for the intellect of those of us who easily see through this grotesque manipulation and lies.
Never wore one and never will. I'm at the docs office right now for a cortisone injection in my rotator. Everyone in the waiting room is masked up. The nurse asked me "where's your mask?". The look she got from me answered her question.
She still handed me one and I put it in my pocket. Brainwashed sheep. Luckily, my doc never bothers me about this idiocy. Nor does he pester me about getting a jab.
Hallelujah amen. This essay is another home run. The “masking out of compassion for others” argument is one that resides outside of absolute truth. Oddly, people who believe in absolute truth (e.g., Christians) are swept up in it. Simply baffling and yet an indicator of the incredible marketing you talked about the other day.
Personally I’ve taken issue with the idea that the best way to imitate Jesus is to mask up and avoid people, when the Jesus that I have read about routinely walked into crowds of sick people and healed them with his hands.
I am also old enough to remember when Mother Theresa was considered a hero of the faith. Hard to imagine in this era of simpering pansies…I mean nice, considerate people.
Right, I meant some, not all by any means 😁 thanks for making me clarify. I worked in marketing for a couple years until I could no longer feel good about the work I was doing. Too much smokescreen and fake promises.
At the local Stop and Shop yesterday, hand sanitiser and masks were displayed at the end of an aisle, deeply discounted. I took that to be a hopeful sign. Also, most adults were not masked. Sadly, many children still were.
If a requirement to do business, I think the answer is yes. I never worried about it, wore the same dirty, useless mask for the whole time, on the occasions that someone asked me to. Easier than trying to convince Karen she's been bamboozled and is under the spell of mass formation psychosis. Price of that one mask (I think I got it free) -- not worth the effort to write it off.
I wonder how many died because someone somewhere felt THREATENED by their expressions of their differing religious faith; that same impulse is alive & well today, but now the injury is "medical" rather than spiritual.
I am not injured by my neighbor's choice of God, and I am not injured by his or her choice in face covering; thus, I have no right to demand they pray to my God or that they refrain from paying to their God or that they wear a mask. If we do not accept this principle, we cannot be free - we can't even be decent as we must kill or punish anyone who dissents.
I do not have the right to impose a medical treatment - including NPIs - on other people, even if that "hurts" me, but especially when that injury is only emotional. Society may not be a suicide pact, but it's not a license to control other people's medical decisions.
Remember that anyone "injured" by non-masking has the option of staying locked-in at home. Their desire to be out and about is not grounds to regulate others.
If I cannot control my body, no other right has any meaning. So, long and short, I say no - even if masks work & even if nonmasking makes some people live in their homes forever. Better to live in a free society than to participate in a prison-camp.
Give me liberty or give me death - remember? That's the fundamental principle of this nation - we do NOT trade liberty for security.
Well, no one wants to say to an immunocompromised person or caregiver of same: "You can't be safe. You have a condition incompatible with longterm survival. You can't fully participate in normal life because every ordinary interaction is dangerous to you, and you've got to choose isolation and its costs, or life and its costs." Said with sorrow, but nevertheless...
No one has the guts to say that to the affected. I didn't. I have a very beloved friend whose life was absolutely destroyed by The Plague and its purported remedies. I accepted quietly for myself that I'd never be able to go visit her again in her country (we'd been making plans before The Plague hit) because I'll never get vaxxed so even if there were no travel restrictions, I would not be perceived as a safe houseguest. I didn't tell her how dangerous I thought the vax might be for her, because I knew she had to make that choice for herself, and the consequences I feared for her seem to have happened (can't say with 100% certainty it was the vax that caused them, but my doubt is zero.
And I certainly could not say to her that she had no right to demand the sacrifices of society so she might be made safe. But I knew with great anguish that is true.
Jerome Adams tweets two years ago are what first red-pilled me. He said the week before Easter 2020 was going to be the "worst week of most American's lives" and "our 9/11, Pearl Harbor moment". And then it wasn't and nothing came of it.
Which is super hilarious because at the end of March 2020 he was saying masks didn't work and explaining why.
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“On an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students and medical students wearing surgical masks touch their face on average 23 times,” Adams explained. “We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face so wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease.”
Adams went on to say that wearing a face mask “can also give you a false sense of security." He added that "you see many of these pictures with people out and about closer than six feet to each other, but still wearing a mask.”
C'mon man, the science changed! And then changed back!
The sad thing about this story is that of all the scientific boondoggles of COVID, the masking debate was the lowest hanging fruit for someone.. anyone.. to figure out was bullshit, it's not only common sense but long studied and understood. Source control is obviously impossible, and prevents ingress control. The virions are too small. Duh!
When it became clear that society for some reason was collectively failing to figure this out, it became clear that they definitely weren't going to figure out any of the more complex questions either. And here we are 2 years later
I'm not acquainted with him. But he sounds like America's answer to the infamous Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, London. Using sophisticated models, he is famous for making grossly erroneous projections about not one but several potential pandemics. Broadly speaking, these are the same guys who "prove" using computer simulations how our climate is going to hell.
Old friend telling me about the farm he grew up on in Oregon. When the big old place was up for sale, the new family noticed there were a lot of cats on the property, and they were a bit flea infested.
My friend (his name was Moe) told them how to do a flea dip on all those cats, as they had done every spring.
Well, the family did the flea dip, but they thought a little extra poison would be a good idea, and they killed all the cats by accident.
oops.
2. In college I did some wood shop projects for classes, had to go to a local woodshop and buy some oak boards, in one case. There were 2 shops where you could buy wood, and the one I had picked had invested in a new wood drying system recently. I was supposed to dry the wood in half the time, a new invention by one of the college grads in the family.
Well, when I brought the boards to the woodshop, my boss cautioned me. He asked which mill I had bought the wood from and when I told him he rolled his eyes. He said that pretty much every piece of lumber from that mill did super crazy things on the table saw, bowing and popping and was very dangerous. The mill went broke because of it.I always use the lesson- you don't want to rush known processes, and things that worked out perfectly on paper only seldom work out that well in real life.
oops.
3. Highschool social studies teacher said this about how the human mind and heart work.
When the tuberculosis epidemics were raging in the late 1800s in England somewhere, the royal children kept dying from it. Soon the only person allowed to visit the castle was the milkman, because of course they had to have their milk for health.
Well, the tuberculosis was in the milk, but the people would not could not admit that might be the case, because of course milk is good for you.
Soon after the pathogen was found to be in the milk, ie the advent of microscopes of enough power to see it. OOPS.
As the mother of an immuno-compromised child (now an adult), I resent using this as a reason to stifle everyone’s freedom. Over the years did I wish that parents keep their kids home from school when they were sick? Sure. It would have meant fewer sick days for mine. But illness is a fact of life. If it’s not Covid it’s something else. None of these protocols have been “about the children.” If they were concerned about kids, they’d have kept the schools open. This is about conditioning people so they don’t notice their freedoms being incrementally taken away.
If there's one thing I will now do post-pandemic, it's stay home when I'm sick. But I won't wear a mask when I'm well.
My immunocompromised 4 year old is now 7. I hate when people weaponize immunocompromised children for their political battles. It’s so sleazy and pathetic. And never once has my child gotten sick from a grocery store.
And, my guess is, no one cared enough to wear a mask around them before Covid. I see a number of people on social media expressing how much they suddenly “care.” Maybe the silver lining is people will better understand that when these kids get a cold it hits them harder. In the course of my child’s schooling, not many teachers were sympathetic.
My son was actually kicked out of two different private school. No sympathy for a kid with post-infectious brain inflammation. The real kicker is when he got COVID in January, it was a non event for him. He recovered better than anyone else in the family.
I’m sorry about the private school thing. Great news on the Covid front, though! My daughter has T1D. She was the only one who didn’t get sick with Covid at work, ended up having to cover for people at two locations. I’m hoping she remains healthy.
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I don’t think they actually care about immune compromised people.They just care about themselves and think the mask protects them.
It is revealing how the arguments used for masking, and vaccines consist of emotional manipulation.
That's how *they* the *hypochondriacs* phrase it.
Connie - you deserve a platinum medal. Seriously. I take care of immunocompromised patients and all of this time, even including Covid, they got busy LIVING. They knew they were at risk but they already understood that their life was not guaranteed with their illness so they LIVED. They took care of kids, their elderly loved ones, they worked, and they travelled.
Now, some are using the immunocompromised status as an excuse to keep this charade going.
Do people think we didn’t have immunocompromised patients before Covid came along?
Why didn’t they care this much about them before?
God bless you & yours 🐱🙏🐱
It's so heartwarming to see and hear normal people like you again. I hope someone can protect us from these lunatics.
We need to wear a mask to protect the Bubble Boy. Life imitates Seinfeld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aksQPLBDfsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndzhY8TQpxw
Thanks for those blasts from the past!
Good for you. I have to say that I think you are in the minority. I was in a group with a lady who said she had an immuno-compromised teenager and expected us to mask up around her even though her child wasn't there. But we also saw her without a mask plenty of times. It was so hypocritical of her. She called my teenager plenty of horrible things because we didn't agree with her idea that we should all compromise ourselves (with masks, vaccines, etc.) for her child, whom we never saw.
Connie you are an awesome mother. And an incredible citizen. I am proud to call you my countrywoman.
Thank you! You’re very kind. I’m not all that awesome, but I like to think I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
No, Duchess is correct. You ARE.
Thank you TRM. I think I am correct too!
You are so right. I remember parents not keeping their sick kids home because the parents didn’t want to take a day off work. One time a mom bought her child that had been vomiting into school after lunch because then it was exactly 24 hours since the child had last gotten sick. And she was a nurse.
Thank you!
Connie, you are one of a few women I know who value liberty. Most of our half of te species does not. It is not in our natures. So my sincere admiration and thanks.
Country moms used to get all the kids sick at once with chickenpox to get it over with for all and gain immunity...an entirely different attitude that works with the situation at hand instead of trying to control it. Permaculture vs monoculture.
To show compassion for other's superstitions I walk around in magic underpants.
People wearing underpants make me uncomfortable! Get rid of them!
People with brown streaks back there make me uncomfortable.
Maybe put the chonies back on?
Soon the CDC will recommend healing crystals—touting a dodgy study from Astrology Today—and their power to assuage the fears of the credulous and craven.
As soon as a pharma corporation patents a healing crystal they will become "safe and effective". Anyone saying otherwise will need to be banned from twitter, facebook, CNN, NYT et al for spreading deadly dangerous misinformation.
I believe Moderna is working on it now. It needs something new. Have you seen its stock price?
Those I might buy.
I'll stick with my old lucky rabbit's foot and 4 leaf clover.
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Great post. It sounds really cold to say, but there's literally nothing any one of us can do to save someone from themselves. If there's one theme I've noticed over the last 2 years is the "blame game" where we point to someone who either isn't "with the program" for anything that happens to us. The "I'm a victim" mantra has gone to levels I never thought possible. I was shunned very early on in this 15 days to flatten the curve for saying, "If I happen upon you after a terrible car accident and you are bleeding out, I will render aid to the best of my ability, but I am NOT going to do something that hurts myself to make someone else feel better or "safer". Nope. It's not my responsibility to worry about everyone else and what they think of me. If someone is 200 pounds overweight should I eat 3 big macs and "super size" the fries to make them feel better about their choices/situation? Sorry. Not gonna happen. Call me a hater, but one of my favorites testimonials I heard some months back: A guy was in a store without a face diaper and a Karen started shrieking at him about it and said, "well, it's obvious you don't care about me!". The man replied, "you're right, I don't." I know the way he meant that and I agree. Human beings fail each other at every turn. If we are looking for other people to keep us healthy, safe, fed, clothed, housed, etc. We will ALWAYS be very disappointed. I look out for me and the people I love. And that's all any of us can realistically do.
I was one of the ones at the very beginning who would not mask and *gasp* went the wrong way on the one-way aisles in the stores. OMG, the abuse I took from women and only women! They would gang up on me when I was just trying to shop as quickly as possible and stay out of everyone's way. These people were relentless in their stupidity. I might add I'm retired from medical field and knew that masks were useless prior to the 'pandemic'.
In the fall of 2020 I stopped at a rest area to use the head. There was one other car in the parking area. I walked maskless by the DOT sign telling me to mask up. Of course, the other driver was using one of the two urinals. I started to use the other and he looked over the barrier between the two. Then he tapped his mask and pointed to my maskless face shaking his head in disapproval. I smiled as I zipped up and said "I'm glad you agree with me that masks don't work." I could see his disapproving eyes suddenly change to puzzlement and so continued. "If you thought they did work then you would know that we are both safe while together even if only one of us is wearing a mask!" I left as he was standing there trying to figure this out.
i, too, was shunned early on for saying essentially the same thing: that I will not forgo my own needs in order to save someone else. that's the heart of codependency and self-abandonment, and I refuse to play that game anymore. I will give and help from overflow, and no more. People were suuuuper offended by that one. It cost me a bunch of friends. But I stand by it.
I came to this thinking later in the pandemic. As someone who’s had relationships with people with addictions, I started realizing what was going on when an (apparently?) immunocompromised “friend” started guilting me for not vaxxing, implying I was putting her and her daughter at risk. Her daughter and my daughter are friends and she’s no longer allowed at my house cause of our vax status! But: She Goes To School while the mom enjoys her housewife life and the dad makes a shit ton from home high up at Amazon. HE works for Amazon while SHE shops from there and preaches about collective values and ”community”…ha!!…while now shunning us who have not vaxxed. I started thinking from my al anon days that it’s important to take care of ME first. She didn’t much like this way of thinking—-something about “but the COLLECTIVE!”…and we haven’t spoken since. I’m still pissed 🤣…can you tell?!
Well put. I totally agree with and share your sentiments. I have lost friends and a few family members over this devisive virus. I sometimes think that a lot of vaccinated people are angry for the failure of the so called vaccines and are taking it out on those like myself who chose not to take part in this experiment. I followed the Canadian Truck convoy on different media and there was a small counter protest in Ottawa. It was a Karen Fest. All masked up outdoors and carrying signs. One sign actually said all the unvaccinated people should die! Not one comment about this hateful rhetoric on mainstream media. Except for the first few months when the pandemic was declared, I have never been overly worried or frightened of covid. However, some of the unhinged vaccinated people terrify me.
Those people that rant that all unvax should die terrifies me. Just saw a video of a 22 year old that got so messed up after one shot. And does the medical community help? No they suggest he has anxiety. I feel so bad for him and others that have suffered. Now should he “die” cuz he’s not fully vaxxed? If he gets another one he might very well die. But they are compassionate for wearing masks? Let’s ask the good doctor how he will help these people that have been injured by the jab.
Oh, my friend hated me before the vaxxes were even allowed for our age range, because I didn't care if I (!) got the flu. (Control freak much?)
If there were something we could do to save somebody from themselves we would not have drug addicts living on our streets today. Instead some try and the end result seems to be create even more addicts.
Victim-hood is destructive ideology. Allowing yourself to blame others removes the incentive to be responsible for yourself. It allows others to control you. As a vulnerable senior it's my job to avoid getting ill, not societies.
I don't know about others controlling them. They seem to use it to control others. "Oh, poor pitiful me, I can't (fill in the blank), would you please do/go/give, so I can (fill in the blank)." You can only take so much of that controlling behavior before it drives you crazy, because it's not every so often, it's All. The. Time.
A clarification: I know some people DO have real physical or mental limitations. I don't mind helping people that truly need help. (Although, sometimes they can also overstep boundries.) If you really know these people you can tell the difference.
Somewhat like the charities I support. Some of them clearly share lists so I am deluged with mail requests that fill my bin. And like the internet ads that arrive after I buy something as if I bought one, clearly I must need more of the same. It obviously must work on some, go figure.
Of course, the ones who shriek the loudest, "you don't care about me!" are all over the twitter threads wishing death (or worse) on the people who don't care about them. Whatever you believe or don't about the science™, it's kinda hard to claim the high road when you're not even going to consider taking it unless the other guy goes first.
I remember a friend was grocery shopping and a lady freaked out cuz he was going the “wrong way” down the aisle. She was just as close to the people going the “right way.” Seems so crazy now.
I walked backwards down the one-way aisle with my cart facing the right direction. When you stop to make a selection, no one knows what direction you were going two seconds earlier.
I couldn't agree more.
My office lifted their mask mandate last week. The email sent by HR admonished those of us choosing to take our masks off, to please be considerate and patient with those who continue to wear masks, and if we come upon a masked coworker, to put our mask back on.
This is NOT respectful. We respect people by telling them the truth.
This is the very same thing that has been going on with political correctness, hate speech, transgenders in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, using the preferred pronoun, taking a knee and microaggressions. All of it is the same, reinforcing a form of mental illness, and all of it needs to end now.
"The emperor has no clothes."
Yes, I am seeing a lot of language about "being patient with those who choose to mask and not bullying or ostracizing them." Oh? You mean like has been done to those who have called foul on the masking thing from the beginning? That kind of bullying which gets a person called "grandma killer?"
And “ kill the unvaxxed”
Now that’s compassion!!!
While we endure our "dark winter" born out of disobedience and not doing the "right thing."
Yep, dying as we speak from the coof. (SMH Not at all.)
‘… to please be considerate and patient with those who continue to wear masks, and if we come upon a masked coworker, to put our mask back on.‘
So a masked co-worker is not required to be considerate and take their mask off for you? This consideration and respect malarky is not for everyone, just for the chosen.
The default is Humans do not wear masks. Mask wearers should conform to the norm.
I have found it very alienating to be surrounded by a sea of mask wearers. My default is to smile and have my smile returned. A brainwashed friend told me, "but you smile with your EYES...." and no, actually.... you really don't. I like to be able to read the full expression on someone's face. I mean, who doesn't???? Otherwise, we might as well be robots and not humans.
My experience is you can only read the eye expressions of your closest friends and not well, at that. So smiling through masks as you pass a stranger in the hall way? Could look threatening or leery to them.
My office tried to do one in 2020. me and my 77 year old employee refused. Slowly the rest of the office joined us. A month later it was completey ignored.
This
It should have ended years ago. --- If you don't act/speak as they want you are harrassed endlessly forever.....BUT that's ok, 'cause it's you, not them.
One day in the fall of 2020, I came across a woman wearing a shirt that said, in large letters, "if you can read this, you're standing too close." I could read it from about 50 feet away. So your analogy of how ridiculous it would be to create a 20-foot buffer to alleviate somebody's anxiety is, if anything, a conservative approximation to actual hysteria that I have witnessed.
Not to mention that this woman was walking along a sidewalk in a densely populated urban area. The arrogance of somebody who would claim some kind of moralistic dominion over a 100-foot diameter of public space is absolutely stunning.
In other words, our ability to transmit the virus depends on how we score on vision tests.
Good one!
My fiancé wanted to walk around with a tape measured extended to six feet to measure distance and keep people away to show how ridiculous the whole thing is. I still think he should have done it to mock the Karens.
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I saw the same shirt on a man who was also double-masked with a face visor. So stunning, so brave.
Moralistic dominion. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love that last sentence!!🙌🏼
I wonder if people like Jerome will ever realize the damage they've done to tens of millions of Americans through their lies and manipulation. Indoor mask mandate ended here in Illinois today, yet at the grocery store this morning (where I haven't worn a mask the entire 6 months of the mandate) the 5 other customers I saw were all wearing masks and almost all of the employees were still masked.
People like Jerome created an unrealistic level of fear of Covid in people and pointed to the mask as their savior. After two years of relentlessly pummeling that message into people's heads is it any wonder there will still be a ton of people masking for months if not years to come? Jerome helped create a massive mental illness problem and those like him need to be reminded of that every second of every day.
And , honestly… Jerome himself is mentally /emotionally unwell.
"I wonder if... Jerome will ever realize..." Nope -- it would require a sense of self-awareness that these people do not have. They are the all-knowing, all-powerful Oz... they don't even bother saying "Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain."
"This is not public health, it’s facile and assumptive claims about failed NPI’s using emotional corner cases and vapid, accusatory moralizing to justify having adopted stances rooted in talismanic superstition and supported by actual, unequivocal fraud"
El Gato Malo confirmed El Gato Salvaje.
“tyranny of the superstitious hypochondriacs” and the Covidian faithful in masked devotion!
This Sunday at Mass our pastor said he was considering burning the masks for ashes on Wednesday. Everyone applauded, even though it was a bit sacrilegious. :D
Not sacrilegious IMO. The mask has been one of the vestments of the religion of covid .
It has also been used to ban folks from worshiping in all other traditional forms.
“We all with unveiled faces reflect His glory.”
“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty”:
“I don’t give a 🤬 about you or your comfort and emotional well being when around me.” —Jerome Adams
It's basic CIA training and so well known inside the Beltway there's even a souvenier mug, hoodie, tote bag series in CIA gift shop. Yes you need clearance for the gift shop. :~)
"Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations."
It would appear we have arrived.
"We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
~ William Casey, CIA Director 1981
Kapow! 🥊
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If Dr. Adams is so concerned about the immunocompromised then I'm sure prior to 2020 he always wore a mask as well. After all, someone with a defective immune system could just as easily be killed by H1N1 as he could by SARS-CoV-2. And if Dr. Adams didn't, well, just how many people have you killed with your negligence Dr. Adams?
Ah, logic. The leftists kryptonite.
Excellent point- I expect to seem him in a mask for every upcoming flu season!!
Oh don’t start that. The maniacs have been calling for it since day 1!
Yes, already in NZ the PM is talking about keeping some restrictions as we go into winter seeing as the cases of flu dropped during the last two winters due to everybody masking and being confined etc.
Same here in British Columbia, Canada. Our health czar is already talking about respiratory season. Hint. We used to call it Fall and Winter. Bet we'll be masked up by then. Actually we are still masked up and in this province there isn't even a date to stop wearing them. We'll be lucky if at some point we get a tiny respite from wearing them.
Yes, Winter is now FLU season! People here in NZ are so inspired by Canadians! At our protests, many people wave your flag in solidarity. (MSM 'interpret' this as being proof we are controlled by overseas evil people blah blah!) I have visited your beautiful country several times and hope to return some time soon.
Off topic: but police in riot gear have now moved into parliament area where the main protest is based and started smashing and removing tents and gear, pepper spraying etc
Ah, yes. August 31st. The demask season.
Or being counted as covid. 🙄
Why is he tweeting about this? Didn't the CDC drop the mask recommendations last week? Did he not get the memo?
that's why he's tweeting it.
he feels the power slipping away and wants to shift the debate to a moral dimension to keep it.
The CDC did not drop them all and left them on the table for the future. They never actually admitted they don't work. They just sort of hoped we would not notice that omission.
Sorry, I confused the "he." As Daffy Duck would say, "Pronoun trouble."
Excellent piece! This cat can write. As I told my priest when he asked why I find masking so objectionable, "it forces me to lie to others." I believe that is known as "bearing false witness." I will not do it anymore.
Exactly this.
What sort of irresponsible mother would take her immunocompromised to the grocery store, and especially in doing so think she can rely on the “masks” of others to protect her kid?
That sort of entitled dimwittery is a big, big social problem.
What underpins the stupid of these nitwits is ignorance and inability to think and reason. If ‘immunosuppressed’ 4 year olds are so vulnerable they should not be out of doors at all - or wearing a hazmat suit - because if they are ‘vulnerable’ to one respiratory virus, they will be vulnerable to them all, plus a whole range of other viruses and disease-causing bacteria. It’s not the particular pathogen that makes them ‘vulnerable’ it’s the failure of their immune system to defend them against invading pathogens, in which case pathogens harmless in most people can be fatal in the immunosuppressed. Nobody died FROM HIV, they died of other opportunistic infections because their immune system stopped working because of the HIV. And repeat vaccination can do what HIV does - screw up the immune system.
Your comments seem mostly correct. However, your comment about HIV may not be true. RFK Jr. "The Real Anthony Fauci" covers in detail the twisted history of AIDS research and how it was captured by Fauci and other ignoble actors. HIV was basically enshrined as The Cause of AIDS and funding, policy, etc. directed to that end. Problem is, not all scientists agreed. These were de-funded, careers destroyed, and so forth. None of this proves that HIV is not a factor in AIDS, but plenty of people have had AIDS with not a trace of the HIV virus to be found. I'm not saying RFK Jr. (or the authors he cites) are right, but there is plenty to be skeptical about. "Follow the money," and you will find Dr. Fauci lording it over a vast expensive research empire, and nary a dissenting voice to be heard.
Yes boys and girls, that is how "science" is now done, and in fact, has been done for many decades.
Another guy with the combined credibility of Used Cars Joe Isuzu and Mr Haney from Green Acres. Please go away already.
Snort!
NY is dropping their masks for schools the day after Biden's SotU speech. Because today it's unsafe for kids to unmask. Tomorrow it's unsafe for kids to unmask. But the NEXT day, all good.
And listen to the new gov. lay down the law:
"We will not stand for any bullying or ostracization or harassment for an individual or business who chooses to wear a mask as we're still going through this," Hochul said in a statement.
Yes, the real problem this whole time has been unmasked people harassing masked people. That's the ticket!
Yes SimComm. I'm in NY too and you just have to love the timing. That virus continues to be so intelligent in how it can be lethal one day, but not the next. Amazing. Hochul is bullying personified.
Who needs masks when you have vaccine passports
The Ho' is a demon witch. Look at her and tell me she isn't. I dare you. She chose Ash Wednesday to do this. It wasn't a mistake.
Oh, good point!
“tyranny of the superstitious hypochondriacs” Is as good a description as I’ve seen of the last two years. Thankfully their rule is coming to an end.
Is their rule coming to an end? I really hope so, but these people are nothing if not persistent and cagey. They are distracting everyone with Ukraine/Russia, but they are still plotting.
The entire scamdemic has only made me care much less about strangers. After all, these people cheered for me to be banned from society for choosing to skip a medical treatment that doesn't work.
I haven't worn a mask in public since the summer of 2020.
They can all go piss up a rope.
The amount of people I have lost total respect for over the past two years saddens me. Family included.
You should be aware that experts advise against pissing up a rope, and suggest the use of gloves and eye protection in the event that pissing up a rope becomes necessary.
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And the WHO are still pushing Vaccine passports - another measure which makes zero difference.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/who-still-pushing-global-vaccine?utm_source=url
Vaccine passports are the road to digital currency, nothing more, nothing less.
That’s what all this was about. That’s why they needed everyone to comply.
Sadly there is more than digital currency, it embraces the Social Credit Score System. We will all likely lose 173 points for our microaggressions against Jerome's selfish stupidity.
How many points does he earn for being a good citizen then?
No difference as a health measure but then nothing COVID has been about health and nefarious agendas abound so "success" is a different metric for passport advocates.
When Mike Yeadon predicted that over a year ago, not seeing all that has happened now in between, and still being accurate, while being called worse than Alex Jones for it, I guess all the disctractions used as justification aren't really all that important.
The frustrating thing is that Joe and Jane Normie still don't get it. But they also buy the utter failure and worse of the injections as "well, this pesky virus is soooo extra bad, that must be it. So I guess boosters every couple months are necessary. Do the right thing. *zombie noises*"
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/legal-walls-of-the-covid-19-kill
Report on Attorney Todd Callender’s Jan. 30, 2022 interview by Dr. Elizabeth Vliet Lee.
Callender’s main point is that the powers-that-be have been building legal systems gradually over the past 30 years (executive orders, regulatory amendments to legislative statutes, and court precedents) to enable and protect the whole complex web of insanity that’s become painfully visible to many of us in the last two years.
Outline:
-Brief Analysis
-1990 - Three United Nations conventions
-2005 - The Owners, through the World Health Organization, create International Health Regulations
-2003, 2005 and 2014 - US Presidents’ Executive Orders listing quarantinable communicable diseases
-2017 - Major rulemaking by US Department of Health and Human Services
-Cumulative legal effect of International Health Regulations (IHR) and implementing national regulations and executive orders
-2013 - US Intellectual Property and Patent Law; Title 35 U.S.C. 101
-2020 — Clinical Treatment Protocol and Financial Coercion of Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses
-2008 — Merger of public health with law enforcement
-Pennsylvania case study; how the IHR voids constitutional and statutory law and underpins public health martial law.
-Ransom demand from World Health Organization to G20.
-World Health Organization now working toward an expansion of the 2005 International Health Regulations
-Conclusion
-Related essays
The WHO is planning so much more.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/02/28/plandemic-purpose-exposed.aspx?ui=93fa5e56233c7dc025652d81da57329101baf9b315e435c24bae653890ff5bb7&sd=20210727&cid_source=wnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20220228Z1&mid=DM1118723&rid=1420406763
This. This will be the next battlefield for us.
Not in the control everything in your life realm (sp?).
Seems like a pretty close parallel to responding to gender dysphoria by pretending it’s normal, no?
That's exactly what came to my mind.
Jerome: "I care about people. No, not YOU people."
I suffer from koumpounophobia. People who don’t respect my mental health condition and wear clothing with buttons are just plain scumbags. I think I might start tweeting aggressively about it. 🤔
Esorouchaphobia for me. Panty lines just kill me.
Is there some fancy latin for wife-beater t-shirts? They give me the creeps.
The first time I head this guy speak, and this was when he was still opposing masks, I could see that he was a lightweight. Another epically failed personnel choice by the Donald.
We have to admit, Donald's personnel choices were terrible starting with surrounding himself with family members as top advisors. No one should kid themselves - Ivanka and Jared would step over the average MAGA voter lying on the ground. They are thoroughly elite. I also recognize that he had few people willing to work for his administration.
And he has given us no good reason to think that he has learned from these mistakes, or that we can expect anything different if he gets elected again. Voted for him twice. That's enough for me.
And he had a lot of bad advice. Fedgov is much bigger than Trump Enterprises, he was out of his comfort zone with all those hires -- in a town known as 'The Swamp.'
To put it bluntly, when the sh*t hit the fan, he got rolled. I take no pleasure in admitting that.
So true! If I have to hear one more person tell me that I should mask to “love others,” I’m going to lose my mind. Lies are not loving.
He also throws in the reference to vax status. Again, totally irrelevant to the discussion about reasons to mask. It's totally misleading and gives people a false sense of security when you characterize people by their vax status- vaxxed people can be infected and transmit as readily as unvaxxed. A way better question (but again one I wouldn't advocate) would be to ask if a person had natural immunity. But the real fallback for showing respect to others is not to go out in public if you know you're sick and contagious.
This is one of the most harmful lies of this entire fraud: that unvaccinated people are toxic and filthy and to be shunned. This has divided people -- and plenty of brainwashed people I know (and love) continue to believe this lie. It allows vaccine passports to persist: I still can't attend concerts or plays or go to sporting events because I do not have a vaccine card. The vaccinated people like this policy because "it's no big deal" to show your card, and "I just feel safer, knowing I'm surrounded by responsible, vaccinated people." Often unspoken, but thought, is that unvaxxed people are probably Trumpers (wrongthink). Sometimes that's true, but very often not true. Vaccinated people like to assume without really thinking deeply. Every day, I learn of a new friend or neighbor who has been injured by their vaxx. It's so awful.
I can't even look for a job in my field until the vaxx passports are outlawed. Nobody seems to think that is a problem.
Even if you were a nurse (or maybe you are?) they wouldn't see it as a problem, regardless of staffing shortages, which were already rampant before the pandemic. There's a whole lot of cognitive dissonance going on and just as much scapegoating, so people like us are fair game atm. We don't deserve to feed or shelter ourselves, much less to receive medical care or be allowed to sit with a dying parent. I wish this were a simulation, but the evil seems all too real.
I'm in the same boat as you. It's funny how eating in a restaurant or going to any public venue has gone from being a right to a " privilege". I can't even get on a plane in Canada to travel within my own country.
I'm one of the few people I know who's unvaxxed. I'm also one of the few people I know who has not gotten the 'rona. Most of the people I know who are triple vaxxed have had it something fierce and most of them tested negative. (Chris Masterjohn just wrote about this over on his substack: https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/p/a-brand-new-study-on-pcr-negative?utm_source=url) I think what you say about vaccinated people assuming without thinking deeply is very often the reason they were able to subject themselves to the vax in the first place. But several I know did it just so they could be with family, which seems like the sanest reason to get it... I just pray that they will be okay.
You know Nancy, they found out all the way back with the Diamond Princess that ~81% of folks had a degree of cross-immunity against SARS-CoV-2 resulting from previous coronavirus infections. You are probably one of those, who had strong immunity. Others had partial immunity, got sick but not that bad.
Still though 'they' deny natural immunity... if I was a kitten, I might ask why... kittens after all have not yet had the life experience to develop cynicism.
Funny thing is, I almost never get colds or flu (except that one time I got the flu vaccine)... usually when I feel something coming on, I pound the zinc, vit C, echinacea and such and it's gone by the next morning. I guess childhood set my immune system up well... we played in dirt and put things in our mouths that hadn't been disinfected ... oh, and we didn't have 78 childhood vaccines on the schedule back then, either. 🤔 But yes, I think a little kitten-like curiosity would do the world a lot of good... which is probably why certain elements are trying so hard to kill it.
Most of the people I know are unvaxxed. Most haven't gotten sick, others got sick real early on and are fine now. The vaxxed I know also haven't gotten sick, but a few since the vaxx just don't feel well. ...chronically tired, headaches, some with heart problems.
Oof. Yeah, this is what I fear. I just assumed that so many vaxxed (that I know) were getting sick because they were running around enjoying the "privileges" that those in power had so generously handed back to the compliant. For instance, one caught covid in a mosh pit full of other vaxxed folks, who are the only ones allowed to attend concerts here. So I figured most just got a little reckless because they were ready to get back to life and assumed they were safe because the science™ told them so (and once you hear what you want to hear, by all means, stop listening!). But with all this omicron data, I've had to rethink that. I just really, really, really hope that the likelihood of long-term damage from these things wanes right along with their efficacy... and that the scales are pulled from everyone's eyes before the next round of boosters.
I agree, I hope that the long term damage wanes, but I must admit I don't believe it will. The new findings of the mRNA transcribing to DNA a sequence that can cause cancer was just another punch in the gut. 😧
The crimes against humanity just keep piling up. 😔
They must keep us divided, fighting between factions. If we unite -- we come after THEM.
I don't trust them to unite with them. They're the ones that would defect or spy for the other side.
Well, we don't need to unite with them directly. My point is, once we don't hate each other anymore, we will look for the root causes of our misery -- and we might find THEM.
Thank you. One of the reasons I didn’t trust the media is when they said everyone who didn’t want the jab was a trump supporter. I am not so they just pissed me off. I can’t believe how much they divided our country.
"...unaware of my vax status," says Jerome Adams. Remember those good old days when that was our default mode for all vaccines? Man, I miss those days.
The kindness fallacy ticks me off worse than anything. My disabled daughter has been in tears so many times in the past two years because of the masks…not only because they are hard to wear, but its also hard to see other people wear masks.
Assuming mask-wearing shows kindness is a one-dimensional viewpoint that isn’t based on fact.
What a great post, Gato. What an awful woke, manipulative, abusive man, this Jerome Adams. And then to try to beat us over the head with abuse of Jesus’ words……Jesus is not an enabler nor a shamer, nor a guilt-monger.
I just was (re-)listening to an audiobook version of Nietzsche's "The Antichrist," nevertheless, decorum suggests I withhold any comment at this time 😁
Speak to me more about this "culpability that’s coming."
Excellent rebuttal to the nonsense. All those dummies wearing cereal box helmets on the gridiron of real life frustrate me. One moment I feel bad that they have been so manipulated then the next moment I'm irritated that in this GREAT first world country where, with a little effort albeit, you can read non propaganda information people are too lazy and foolish to do so. It's outright embarrassing (for them). Folly, folly everywhere. Where have all the problem-solving, go getting, pull yourself up by your bootstrap people gone? They are gave down on their screens reading idiots like those in your stack on Twitter and Facebook or watching inanity and being further manipulated on TikTok. People are so dumbed down they can't see the blatant bs before them. I just want to scream "wake the f up"!
Ah, but you don't want to be the first one that hangry sleepy bear sees when it wakes up....poke with a very long stick....and run.
A slight amendment (in CAPS). It is “tyranny OF THE SOCIOPATHS USING the superstitious hypochondriacs and the anxious and performatively plaintive.”
I would have said "malignant narcissists", but "sociopaths" works too.
This is so important. I have countless friends that buy into the “mask to show you care about people” narrative, and I’ve been over here feeling pretty lonely saying “I’m pretty sure when you care about people it means you don’t lie to them.”
💯
As a health care professional who goes with the science and therefore finds everything the CDC or Administration says to be ridiculous, I find the recent series of Surgeon Generals to be Circus Clowns. Let's throw into that mix the media whore doctors such as Sanjay Gupta and well you have quite a group. To be kind let us just say that Dr. Adams was chosen neither for his achievements nor his courage. To put a buffoon like Adams in a debate with Peter McCullough or Robert Malone would be beyond cruel.
But entirely fair and televised, though it may be quite short of a debate. Any jabber doc's zombie brain would explode at the mountains of hard won evidence that the good scientists and statiticians have presented....like my jabbed family, they will be crushed IF and when they ever realize....some never, will die of cancer or liver disease and not make the connection. So be it.
I find it troubling that apparent idiots like Jerome are awarded MDs or similar credentials. This says a lot about about the state of training, qualifications and so on in America, and damned little of it is positive.
So frustrating that exactly the WRONG doctors have been censured, waving the red flag.
I think it would be a hoot to watch! I need a good comedy to make me laugh.
What a Dick-Head. My child abuse patients and autistic patients suffered in horrendous ways because of these asinine masks. I even had a 15 y/o boy who hung himself in May 2020 because of these wretched masks.
Genome has never shown an ounce of compassion for any of these kids or any respect for the intellect of those of us who easily see through this grotesque manipulation and lies.
Never wore one and never will. I'm at the docs office right now for a cortisone injection in my rotator. Everyone in the waiting room is masked up. The nurse asked me "where's your mask?". The look she got from me answered her question.
She still handed me one and I put it in my pocket. Brainwashed sheep. Luckily, my doc never bothers me about this idiocy. Nor does he pester me about getting a jab.
Societal indulgence of delusional beliefs seems to be at the core of modern public health today.
Modern *everything* today.
Hallelujah amen. This essay is another home run. The “masking out of compassion for others” argument is one that resides outside of absolute truth. Oddly, people who believe in absolute truth (e.g., Christians) are swept up in it. Simply baffling and yet an indicator of the incredible marketing you talked about the other day.
Personally I’ve taken issue with the idea that the best way to imitate Jesus is to mask up and avoid people, when the Jesus that I have read about routinely walked into crowds of sick people and healed them with his hands.
I am also old enough to remember when Mother Theresa was considered a hero of the faith. Hard to imagine in this era of simpering pansies…I mean nice, considerate people.
Right, I meant some, not all by any means 😁 thanks for making me clarify. I worked in marketing for a couple years until I could no longer feel good about the work I was doing. Too much smokescreen and fake promises.
Amen, brother.
Let the mask burning parties begin!!!! Let’s flood social media and show the fools who still worship them that it’s
O V E R!!
First is was.. don’t mask.
Then it was…it’s not a bad idea to wear a mask to protect yourself, and two masks may be better than one.
To…masks don’t protect you, but, they protect those around you.
To…wear a mask when standing up, walking, and talking, but not when sitting, or doing handstands, or rubbing your head while jumping on one foot.
I think this is nothing more than a national IQ test and the scores were not impressive.
I remember when he as a surgeon general tweeted 2/29/20:
Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus….
He’s a tool
Masks: Not much different than insisting we use gender pronouns, etc.
At the local Stop and Shop yesterday, hand sanitiser and masks were displayed at the end of an aisle, deeply discounted. I took that to be a hopeful sign. Also, most adults were not masked. Sadly, many children still were.
The number of parents who persist in masking their young children is astounding to me. Just astounding.
are masks a deductible expense on my taxes? (Asking for a friend...)
If a requirement to do business, I think the answer is yes. I never worried about it, wore the same dirty, useless mask for the whole time, on the occasions that someone asked me to. Easier than trying to convince Karen she's been bamboozled and is under the spell of mass formation psychosis. Price of that one mask (I think I got it free) -- not worth the effort to write it off.
Lab rats, and damaged and dead lab rats, are not required to pay taxes.
I wonder how many died because someone somewhere felt THREATENED by their expressions of their differing religious faith; that same impulse is alive & well today, but now the injury is "medical" rather than spiritual.
I am not injured by my neighbor's choice of God, and I am not injured by his or her choice in face covering; thus, I have no right to demand they pray to my God or that they refrain from paying to their God or that they wear a mask. If we do not accept this principle, we cannot be free - we can't even be decent as we must kill or punish anyone who dissents.
I do not have the right to impose a medical treatment - including NPIs - on other people, even if that "hurts" me, but especially when that injury is only emotional. Society may not be a suicide pact, but it's not a license to control other people's medical decisions.
Remember that anyone "injured" by non-masking has the option of staying locked-in at home. Their desire to be out and about is not grounds to regulate others.
If I cannot control my body, no other right has any meaning. So, long and short, I say no - even if masks work & even if nonmasking makes some people live in their homes forever. Better to live in a free society than to participate in a prison-camp.
Give me liberty or give me death - remember? That's the fundamental principle of this nation - we do NOT trade liberty for security.
I suppose Catholics should stop wearing crucifix jewelry, because a vampire might be offended.
If you told Jerome to wear an armband because it keeps goblins away, He'd do it.
Pretty sure he wouldn’t, he’d want US to do it. He knows this stuff doesn’t work
Or maybe just start a war. Doesn't matter the nature of the crisis, WEF just needs a crisis.
Well, no one wants to say to an immunocompromised person or caregiver of same: "You can't be safe. You have a condition incompatible with longterm survival. You can't fully participate in normal life because every ordinary interaction is dangerous to you, and you've got to choose isolation and its costs, or life and its costs." Said with sorrow, but nevertheless...
No one has the guts to say that to the affected. I didn't. I have a very beloved friend whose life was absolutely destroyed by The Plague and its purported remedies. I accepted quietly for myself that I'd never be able to go visit her again in her country (we'd been making plans before The Plague hit) because I'll never get vaxxed so even if there were no travel restrictions, I would not be perceived as a safe houseguest. I didn't tell her how dangerous I thought the vax might be for her, because I knew she had to make that choice for herself, and the consequences I feared for her seem to have happened (can't say with 100% certainty it was the vax that caused them, but my doubt is zero.
And I certainly could not say to her that she had no right to demand the sacrifices of society so she might be made safe. But I knew with great anguish that is true.
I understand. I am in a similar situation.
Jerome Adams tweets two years ago are what first red-pilled me. He said the week before Easter 2020 was going to be the "worst week of most American's lives" and "our 9/11, Pearl Harbor moment". And then it wasn't and nothing came of it.
Which is super hilarious because at the end of March 2020 he was saying masks didn't work and explaining why.
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“On an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students and medical students wearing surgical masks touch their face on average 23 times,” Adams explained. “We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face so wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease.”
Adams went on to say that wearing a face mask “can also give you a false sense of security." He added that "you see many of these pictures with people out and about closer than six feet to each other, but still wearing a mask.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/surgeon-general-explains-masks-public-coronavirus
C'mon man, the science changed! And then changed back!
The sad thing about this story is that of all the scientific boondoggles of COVID, the masking debate was the lowest hanging fruit for someone.. anyone.. to figure out was bullshit, it's not only common sense but long studied and understood. Source control is obviously impossible, and prevents ingress control. The virions are too small. Duh!
When it became clear that society for some reason was collectively failing to figure this out, it became clear that they definitely weren't going to figure out any of the more complex questions either. And here we are 2 years later
I'm not acquainted with him. But he sounds like America's answer to the infamous Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, London. Using sophisticated models, he is famous for making grossly erroneous projections about not one but several potential pandemics. Broadly speaking, these are the same guys who "prove" using computer simulations how our climate is going to hell.
3 OOPS analogies to now....
1.
Old friend telling me about the farm he grew up on in Oregon. When the big old place was up for sale, the new family noticed there were a lot of cats on the property, and they were a bit flea infested.
My friend (his name was Moe) told them how to do a flea dip on all those cats, as they had done every spring.
Well, the family did the flea dip, but they thought a little extra poison would be a good idea, and they killed all the cats by accident.
oops.
2. In college I did some wood shop projects for classes, had to go to a local woodshop and buy some oak boards, in one case. There were 2 shops where you could buy wood, and the one I had picked had invested in a new wood drying system recently. I was supposed to dry the wood in half the time, a new invention by one of the college grads in the family.
Well, when I brought the boards to the woodshop, my boss cautioned me. He asked which mill I had bought the wood from and when I told him he rolled his eyes. He said that pretty much every piece of lumber from that mill did super crazy things on the table saw, bowing and popping and was very dangerous. The mill went broke because of it.I always use the lesson- you don't want to rush known processes, and things that worked out perfectly on paper only seldom work out that well in real life.
oops.
3. Highschool social studies teacher said this about how the human mind and heart work.
When the tuberculosis epidemics were raging in the late 1800s in England somewhere, the royal children kept dying from it. Soon the only person allowed to visit the castle was the milkman, because of course they had to have their milk for health.
Well, the tuberculosis was in the milk, but the people would not could not admit that might be the case, because of course milk is good for you.
Soon after the pathogen was found to be in the milk, ie the advent of microscopes of enough power to see it. OOPS.
Those who wear a mask to enable another person's fears are doing the EXACT moral equivalent of handing an alcoholic a drink.
CDC = Center for Dunce Compassion
Center for disease creation.
Or how about Central Dunce Commission