How the FBI gets in the middle of these things is it’s own puzzle - why do all presidential candidates these days have to be so damned dirty …
One should never be so naive as to trust government, but I notice that I do anyway, and therefore find it disconcerting when it becomes clear how rotten all of these powerful institutions are …
Masks served the political need to “do something”, and they ended up being a way for us to wear our fear on our faces - implied shared suffering. A symbol of our grief at the change COVID gave us. But there was never a reason to think they would help stop an virus that spread via aerosol.
As others have observed, the real injury will be when the CDC that has proven to be a political toy has to try to intervene if we see something even more nasty than COVID.
It wasn’t only Dr. Fauci. Miller subjects the CDC and its claims about masking to strict scrutiny and finds them wanting. The amount of cherry-picked data and flawed methodologies embraced in CDC studies of masking is astounding. None of the 15 studies the CDC used to justify its claims that masks work are randomized controlled studies, considered the standard for such research. Worse, when randomized controlled studies that were conducted during the pandemic did not bolster the CDC’s masking message, they were downplayed or ignored.
They discuss conjectures about why lifting the mandate did not result in the catastrophe that the mask manic predicted. My speculation is that no one changed their behavior, which is to say, the mandate didn’t result in the mass masking everyone pretended would happen based on government edict. The 2nd reason is that, excepting N95/KN95 masks, the aerosol spread of COVID isn’t hindered by masks.
See/listen here for more on that: https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
From the Atlantic:
“In early march, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses. Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott’s decision, while liberals predicted doom and death and President Joe Biden disparaged it as “Neanderthal thinking.”
Cloth and surgical masks don’t help to stop aerosol transmission - N95 and KN95s might if they’re worn properly. So, it’s time to let go of the “mask to save someone from your breathing” peer pressure. Wear the right mask if you think you need it.
And … there are several angles on why these articles can be published now, when the information has been around for months. One is the political party that made hay via mask mania tribalism realizes the fun is over, folks have had enough of the religion of masking to save your mortal soul. So they have to find a graceful way to step back from their past mask madness.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no
There’s always good with the bad, this is one possible example:
“The biggest benefit of emissions is global greening, the increase year after year of green vegetation on the land surface of the planet. Forests grow more thickly, grasslands more richly and scrub more rapidly. This has been measured using satellites and on-the-ground recording of plant-growth rates. It is happening in all habitats, from tundra to rainforest. In the four decades since 1982, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, NASA data show that global greening has added 618,000 square kilometres of extra green leaves each year, equivalent to three Great Britains. You read that right: every year there’s more greenery on the planet to the extent of three Britains.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/15/why-global-warming-is-good-for-us/
Studies acknowledged by FDA officials show that the FDA’s various safety databases only collect an estimated 1 to 13 percent of all adverse eventsthat occur. Multiple FDA drug safety epidemiologists have stated during official FDA presentation that it only takes a single well-documented adverse event to justify a safety signal investigation and in turn to warn the American public of the potential risk.
