‘Universal Masking in Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era’, New England Journal of Medicine:

“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”

Thanks to mobs of rioting thugs, the “social distancing” narrative has collapsed entirely. In fact, the entire pandemic narrative is gone. But we must admit the painful obviousness of the truth: the corporate media holds absolute control over public opinion. The narrative changed almost immediately, switching from the COVID “New Normal”, to the riots spreading across U.S. cities. The public mind followed in lock-step.

The rioters aren’t being castigated by the corporate press for their violations of the pandemic strictures, and yet just a few weeks ago the mayor of New York City was busy busting up Jewish funerals and religious gatherings. Mayors and governors across the nation were previously harassing churchgoers and small business owners. But for some reason, the rioting mob is except from the COVID narrative. The corporate press gives them a pass, therefore the public mind does as well.

The virus hysteria that we’ve suffered under for the past three months was inflamed and weaponized by corporate media. The riots are receiving the same treatment. The ability of these enormous corporate news entities to marionette society, and twist public policy in any way they desire has been shown to be a clear and present danger to the stability of modern society. But what could possibly be done to prevent this malign influence from controlling the public without violating the liberty of every other news outlet?

Fascinating, brilliant, illuminating interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjNZDsHqUU

“All meaningful art has to break rules.”

-John Carpenter

Check out those cops, all decked out in their war gear, and yet too afraid to protect business owners or civilian bystanders from a rampaging mob. Instead, they bully and harass the people that they know won’t put up a fight. My guess is that they’re embarrassed by their cowardice, and don’t want it broadcast to the world.

New York Post

“For so many sick COVID-19 patients, getting attached to a mechanical ventilator was a death sentence. More than two-thirds of the patients in Northwell Health facilities hooked to ventilators died in March and early April and the fatality rate was similar at other hospitals.

At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials were worried whether there would be a shortage of ventilators to intubate COVID patients with serious breathing and lung problems. But then discussion in the medical community turned to whether the machines were being overused and possibly contributing to a higher death rate.”

The findings will be ghoulish. But they must be faced.

Those that incentivized the use of ventilators must be held to account too. What did they expect would happen? When you subsidize something you get more of it, as the ancient wisdom goes.

It is this, and this alone: find COVID-positive individuals that are willing to volunteer to be traced. Prepare legal assurances that they will not be imprisoned for revealing their positive status. Trace their contacts, providing the same assurances to them. Find the rate of transmission for asymptomatic, as well as symptomatic, carriers. This would be a strictly delimited experiment to ascertain the character of the virus, and how it spreads. It would not be an open-ended, endless war on a virus.

In fact, this has already been done in several cases. This asymptomatic woman was contact-traced. The 455 people she came into contact with never developed COVID symptoms, meaning that asymptomatics do not transmit the virus.

There are other examples. The point is, contact tracing of select individuals is possible, as long as their consent is obtained. No harassment needed, no massive domestic army of snoops and snitches. Of course that would be too easy. Government doesn’t like a plan with no room for mission creep.

From KGUN9: Reopening schools: First look inside schools with partitions

What is driving this hysterical reaction? Is it really just the propaganda saturation by the corporate media? Skyrocketing rates of childhood autoimmune disease has never received anywhere near this amount of attention, and yet, the one illness to come along and trigger this type of reaction is a virus that isn’t harmful to children? Why is society being transformed into a prison over this?

I’ve previously made the point that ‘contact tracing’, where a horde of government thugs attempts to identify and test all the people that have come into contact with a COVID-positive individual, is a fool’s errand. We’re expected to believe that these people, who receive probably less than a week or so of training, will end up rooting out and testing thousands of people for every single infected person? There isn’t enough time or money in the universe to complete the task, but this may be the entire point. Just as the many foreign wars during the past two decades were never actually meant to be ‘won’, the ‘contact tracing’ boondoggle is probably meant to be more of a germ quagmire than a policy with an actual goal or endpoint, and it will end up being Pharma’s equivalent of Vietnam.  That this evil/moronic notion is actually taken seriously by most of our leaders is a testament to the power of propaganda, and fear. To even attempt to carry out the task would involved the violation of every right and dignity that remain to US citizens. There is no way to even begin without steamrolling over liberty. What happens when they find a COVID-positive? Do they forcibly isolate them? Remove them from their family? Where will they store them while they run around the country, looking for more people to lock up?

Now, sit back and marvel at how a secret police has arrived in the United States of America. Under the guise of a virus threat, a domestic army of snoops and snitches (what kind of power will they have?) is being raised. The corporate press has been publishing many stories of Americans who have shown aggression in the face of mandatory masks. I believe this intentional, in order to manufacture consent for the next revelation of the truth of the Tracer Army: they will be armed. The media will tell us that they fear for their lives, and so they need guns. And when an uncooperative COVID-positive is shot by one of these Tracers, we will hear of their aggressiveness, how they ranted about their Constitutional rights as they died. And we’ll hear a familiar refrain from the federal thug: “I was in fear of my life!”

The danger of COVID-19 for anyone under 60 is almost non-existent. It’s not dangerous to children. We’ve known this for months, and yet, here we are amid a government-created economic collapse, the rise of a Pandemic Police State, and the emergence of a strange new religion of hygiene, before which we all must submit. The State and Church are becoming one again, it’s drawing up strict tenets, and building an army to enforce them. The open, free society that we’ve taken for granted is vanishing before our eyes under the weight of the medieval superstition of invisible demons moving silently among us, waiting to snatch our souls. Our only salvation is by way of obeying the new commandments, wearing the new burqa, accepting the sacrament in whatever form it may come (vaccine, pill, et cetera). Punishment for transgressions include forced isolation, repentance. Or banishment for irredeemable heretic.

Off-topic: I’ve gained a newfound respect for the smoker amid the current medieval descent into herd madness. There’s something both defiant and refreshing about seeing a cigarette dangling loosely from someone’s mouth as they go about their day, and they stand out like a sore thumb among the hypochondriac horde, as they huff their own carbon dioxide and look for signs of Doomsday. Just as the mask is a sign of submission to the new hygiene fundamentalism, the cigarette is a symbol of the total rejection of this the sterile ideology. I would never recommend smoking to anyone, just as I would never recommend wearing a mask, both of which suffocate the user. But the smoker has no illusions about his habit, he’s not signalling obedience to anyone. If we emerge from this submersion into a new Dark Age, it will due to people who weren’t afraid to reject the COVID ideology that has so rapidly engulfed our age.