I sent King Abbott another message today, along with some links to edujmacate hisself about the theater of the absurd cult of the mask.

Great article- I'm sending it to King Greg.

https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/20...arent-harmless/
1. Wearing masks prolongs the amount of time the virus stays around by slowing down its infection rate WITHOUT decreasing the number of people who ultimately have to get it before it fades away.

2. Um, nothing that restricts your breathing during a brutal heatwave is harmless.

3. Everyone walking around in public wearing surgical masks feeds the fear and panic over a virus that’s less harmful to young and healthy people than the flu and delays our urgently needed return to normalcy.

4. No one has a clue what deleterious results will follow from depriving people of emotionally connecting with each other via facial cues.

5. You should never let anyone bully you into behaving irrationally. Especially the state.

As Theodore Dalrymple observed:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”


6. Additional bonus reason not to wear a mask: Please consider who’s insisting that you do.

Excellent points.

Masks are effective in some degree in hindering person to person sharing of bugs. The degree varies with the type (for example, an N95 mask will probably be much more effective than a single layer of the "tech" fabric commonly used in runners' and bikers' shirts). Surgical masks have been used for a long time but they are such a tradition that I doubt studies have been done to establish the exact degree of effectiveness.

However, when masks and other measures are used during an epidemic that doesn't lessen with season measures that protect individuals may hinder and slow the natural build up to "herd immunity". They can also slow the processes of learning how to treat the diseases and develop vaccines.

My employer requires employees working in company facilities to wear masks. So I wear one while at work. They do hinder breathing and after a few breaths the air I breathe has a higher CO2 content. So when I am not around people I lift the mask so as to breathe more freely. I have seen runners wearing masks who had no one within 10 or 20 yards of them. I think that may be unsafe due to the higher CO2 content of what they are breathing.

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Masks are effective in some degree in hindering person to person sharing of bugs. The degree varies with the type (for example, an N95 mask will probably be much more effective than a single layer of the "tech" fabric commonly used in runners' and bikers' shirts). Surgical masks have been used for a long time but they are such a tradition that I doubt studies have been done to establish the exact degree of effectiveness.

However, when masks and other measures are used during an epidemic that doesn't lessen with season measures that protect individuals may hinder and slow the natural build up to "herd immunity". They can also slow the processes of learning how to treat the diseases and develop vaccines.

My employer requires employees working in company facilities to wear masks. So I wear one while at work. They do hinder breathing and after a few breaths the air I breathe has a higher CO2 content. So when I am not around people I lift the mask so as to breathe more freely. I have seen runners wearing masks who had no one within 10 or 20 yards of them. I think that may be unsafe due to the higher CO2 content of what they are breathing.

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Masks are effective in some degree in hindering person to person sharing of bugs. The degree varies with the type (for example, an N95 mask will probably be much more effective than a single layer of the "tech" fabric commonly used in runners' and bikers' shirts). Surgical masks have been used for a long time but they are such a tradition that I doubt studies have been done to establish the exact degree of effectiveness.

However, when masks and other measures are used during an epidemic that doesn't lessen with season measures that protect individuals may hinder and slow the natural build up to "herd immunity". They can also slow the processes of learning how to treat the diseases and develop vaccines.

My employer requires employees working in company facilities to wear masks. So I wear one while at work. They do hinder breathing and after a few breaths the air I breathe has a higher CO2 content. So when I am not around people I lift the mask so as to breathe more freely. I have seen runners wearing masks who had no one within 10 or 20 yards of them. I think that may be unsafe due to the higher CO2 content of what they are breathing.

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Think about that next time someone tells you a cloth mask serves any purpose stopping transmission of SARS-CoV2.

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I used the words "some degree" and "hinder" rather than "stop" for a reason.

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Think about that next time someone tells you a cloth mask serves any purpose stopping transmission of SARS-CoV2.

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I used the words "some degree" and "hinder" rather than "stop" for a reason.

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I think we are all in agreement that as an overall matter, they do far more harm than good.