No Mandate, No Factor

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.”

“Nine weeks later, the result seems to be less than catastrophic. In fact, in anew paper, economists at Bentley University and San Diego State University found that Abbott’s order had practically no effect on COVID-19 cases. “The predictions of reopening advocates and opponents failed to materialize,” the authors concluded.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/texas-mask-mandate-no-effect/618942/?utm_source=msn

Perspective on Masking, Mandates

 

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

More Warming - Please?

 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/

Effective Propaganda

 https://tv.gab.com/media/6168180dec0359aa6add4560?viewKey=8d83b2a2-2d72-4a1b-9f55-e418ecbb58af&r=1080p

Fantastic slide show!  Effective indeed. 

Government Defends Itself

 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.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/former-senior-fda-official-manufacturers-fda-negligent-in-not-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-risks-to-heart-health/

Free the Kids - of Nutty Mask Mandates

“There’s an extraordinary difference—even greater than widely recognized—between Covid-19’s effects on kids and its effects on adults, as fatality numbers show. Far from regarding this important fact as a godsend for the upcoming generation, however, many policymakers have treated it as an irrelevancy. At the same time, they have ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical Covid fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.“ 

https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary

He Was Right about China

Denounced by Democrats and the media as a racist for blaming China for COVID-19, Trump feels vindicated as evidence emerges suggesting that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese virology lab in Wuhan. But he believes it was unintentional, likely a product of “gross incompetence.” What was intentional, in Trump’s mind, was the decision by Chinese leaders to allow its citizens to travel globally, which spread the pandemic. Trump has called for countries to cancel their debts to China as part of a down payment on a future reparations plan that he suggests ought to total some $10 trillion.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/06/17/investigative_issues_an_interview_with_donald_trump_unbowed_781711.html