Article in NEJM finds masks to be almost completely useless

‘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.”

 

The media has complete control of the public mind

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?

Minneapolis cops willing to arrest news reporters but not the thugs burning down their city

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’s largest health system launches probe into whether use of ventilators caused avoidable deaths of COVID patients

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.

The only proper use of a contact tracer

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.

If schools resemble this Arizona school in the fall, then the hypochondriacs have won

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

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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?