British military being deployed to enforce COVID restrictions

Pseudo-pandemic martial law. This might have appeared more reasonable if COVID-19 had a 4% mortality rate, and if it had been killing the young and healthy this entire time. But it hasn’t. Only the morbidly obese, severely unhealthy, feeble, and already-sick are in any danger from it. Children are not. The mortality rate for 70 and under is 0.05%. This does not justify a police state. It doesn’t justify anything, really. A proper government response would be to plainly tell the public that they need to eat better, get exercise, and assume personal responsibility. But the public wants a magic bullet, instant gratification, not the truth.

Cell phone data shows that Swedish citizens socially-distanced far less than other countries

From the Mises Institute:

“Using the Google Community Mobility Trends data, we find that the Sweden practiced social distancing far less than countries that had strict lockdowns in place.

For example, the amount of time spent at home surged 30 percent in the UK, Spain, and Italy during the harshest lockdown period. Yet during this same period, the Swedes’s amount of time spent at home never exceeded 15 percent.“

Top scientific journals are refusing to publish largest study to date on effectiveness of masks

What are they afraid of, the results? I’m guessing that the results show that masks do not prevent the spread of coronavirus, directly refuting the mask fundamentalists that screech about the necessity of wearing them.

I’d venture a further guess: masks greatly increase bacterial infections around and within the mouth. I wonder if the study looked into mask-caused oxygen depravation?

This study may pull the rug out from under mask mandates, which is why the heavily-politicized scientific community would prefer to ignore it.