with all the calls for reintroduction of mask mandates, it seems like a good time to review mask efficacy evidence. a 🧵...
please share with mask evangelists.
the one in which masks were shown as 'statistically insignificant' in preventing covid transmission.
the one in which medical masks were shown to be very penetrable (not even counting leaks out sides) and cloth masks were actually shown to increase risk of transmission.
for 21 months now, the panic-inducing messaging from politicians, bureaucrats, the media, & the small handful of scientists allowed a voice in the mainstream, has been completely at odds with all pre-covid & current scientific & public health data.
covid is largely only fatal at times for the elderly/unwell. exceptions to this are sad but anomalous. even early on, prior to the v_xx & effective use of treatment options, the covid decedent median age was between 75 & 78 (life expectancy). cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
of those covid decedents, 94% had at least one underlying condition and the average number of underlying conditions per covid decedent was 2.9. cdc.gov/nchs/data/heal…
i have really wanted to believe that the v_xx made sense for the old & the unwell, but pfizer 6 month trial data put me on the fence. any v_xx worth its weight in salt should show a statistically significant reduction in covid mortality in a pandemic.
it's all the more disconcerting that the cardiac/clot death safety signal is actually stronger than any covid mortality reduction signal in a v_xx w/ known risk of myocarditis/clots as side-effects. 8 cardiac/clot deaths in v_xx group vs. 4 in the placebo group.
credit where it is due, the VE, when it came to reducing symptomatic covid, came in as initially advertised, but tbf, this is in a pre-delta period w/ relatively low covid prevalence.
w/ the v_xx showing no impact on all-cause mortality in 6 month trials, the argument for doing absolutely nothing as pandemic response has gained credibility. a thread...
based on what we know, an estimated .15% of those infected would be dead, but 99% of them would have at least one underlying condition, & 94% of them would have had at least 2. the avg age of decedents would remain at or beyond life expectancy.
and while all death is sad, we would have achieved
a robust and long-lasting herd immunity, far superior to v_xx immunity. 👇
it's really quite simple...global elites have realized for some time their radical agendas cannot be realized in existing political frameworks. they needed a catalyst to transition to something more centralized & they got it.
still, they need to transition to an authoritarianism that doesn't appear as such at first glance. so, 1) just as society nears peak conspicuous 'virtue,' & peak cancel culture they make calls for specific types of collectivism that can step-by-step aid in centralizing power.
2) forge an unprecedented private/public partnership to coerce or disenfranchise dissenters, & buy up all sources of wealth & influence. 3) keep the emergencies alive ad infinitum
enter neo-feudalism, technocratic authoritarianism, & the fourth industrial revolution.
based on 'very scientific' (anecdotal) evidence, i believe that if trump runs in 2024, he will lose. i saw DNC (biden) signs in 2020 in sub-suburbia on par w/ nothing historically, & even saw a few in very rural small towns, which is unprecedented.
a vote for trump has been so successfully stigmatized by the media that i think some people who would secretly like to vote for him (simply as an alternative to the new neoliberal fascists), won't do so, lest they have to admit it or lie in social circles.
there seems to be a decent number of right-leaning & independent never-trumpers already, but on top of all of this, the disaffected libs that are migrating to red states will turn them blue despite their disenchantment, giving us DNC power in perpetuity.
1/? a thread in hopes of speaking for a group of ppl (unrepresented in corporate media) who choose not to covid vaxx and therefore oppose all vaxx mandates:
2/? it's possible to see the data available, & even believe the data showing that covid infection poses a higher risk than a vaxx, & still choose not to vaxx. for some, esp young-ish healthy folks, we prefer organic likely risk over synthetic definite risk, scale notwithstanding.
3/? on top of this, the reality is that both the vaxx & pathogen will have unique side-effects for each person that we'll never be able to notice/prove. it's unique for each person so correlation/trends can't be established, & consequently these side-effects will go undiscovered.