THE MENACE OF THE MASKS

Karl Denninger writes:  

OUR REFUSAL TO TREAT EARLY WITH KNOWN-SAFE AGENTS IS WITCH-DOCTOR BULL**** AND IS ALMOST CERTAINLY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF OVER 100,000 AMERICANS.

We have done science for 40 years related to masks and their impact on viral transmission.  It's at best a zero, because a virus is a fraction of a micron in size and the pores in a mask are larger and, more-importantly, anything less than an N95 does not seal at all around the face.  Basic flow dynamics give you the rest; a mask forms "jets" around the gaps and an enormous amount of the airflow bypasses the filtering element entirely as a result.  Your unobstructed nose directs viral particles at the ground where they harm nobody, said jets if you're wearing a mask may direct that outflow of breath at someone else's face, hands, or a surface another person will contact.  A study from almost 40 years ago showed that in an operating room, where you can control everything but the one variable in an experiment, masks not only didn't work the infection rate went down when they were removed from the operating theater, likely due to the above causes of cross-contamination. 

But just in the last few months, after a review of the literature published at the CDC's web page itself published in May found no evidence for anything less than respirators, that is, N95s, being effective against viruses, people started running computer simulations and claiming masks worked to stop viruses based on computer simulations and artificial mock-ups.

These "studies" and "simulations" and those running them were and are all frauds.  Every one of them intentionally ignored every element of the real world except the passage of breath through the mask.  They ignored jets formed around the edges of said masks; the unsealed portion.  They ignored the fact that a mask is a filter, and thus what it traps flowing in either direction it collects.  They ignored that a mask on a person who is going from one place to another transports what it collects and thus takes the risk of infection from wherever it is encountered and by definition spreads that risk to other places and persons. They ignored that the mask is likely not sterile when put on (definitely not if it is reused) and that without soap-and-water hand-washing available at the time of putting it on or removing it contamination of the wearer's hands which can then infect the wearer or other people is inevitable.  They ignored that in the general untrained population people will and do touch and "adjust" their mask repeatedly and each such touch contaminates one's hands which then can contaminate a surface or inoculate the wearer or others. They ignored that in the general public proper disposal or  sequestering of the now-biologically dangerous mask once it has been worn will never take place and thus it can and will infect others. And finally they ignored that for a bug which can be transmitted by fecal material, including fecal aerosols as we know are a transmission path for Covid19 since this the only plausible transmission mechanism for two outbreaks in February the wearing of masks into a restroom, especially a public restroom, is likely to result in the collection of fecal aerosol material and its transport out of the restroom and thus the infection of other persons beyond the individual who used said restroom at said time.

Then there's the WHO's admission that the guidelines were based on political lobbying and clear evidence of intentional false characterizations of observational "studies."  In other words there is no science; it was literally all made up.

In addition, and perhaps most-damning there is the clear and convincing evidence from multiple jurisdictions that infection rates rise after mask mandates are put in place, including Hawaii state-wide, Sevier and Knox Counties in Tennessee, the entire nation of Spain and more.  In other words exactly what the 40+ years of science has told us, including that seminal study of masks in an operating room increased infection rates was replicated by experiment in multiple jurisdictions that passed mask ordinances over the last several months and yet exactly zero of said locations have removed their mandates even when the data is conclusive and literally shoved in their face.

 

In other words...... Witchcraft and worse, intentional exposure and infection of the population to this virus by government mandate.