Face masks are baaack! The Delta Variant of COVID-19 is not halting the spread of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control advises face masks indoors even if fully vaccinated. Have we ever had a vaccine that didn’t work like this one?
The day after California dropped its face mask mandate, I walked into a Trader Joe’s store as the lone person not wearing a mask. It was like shoppers in the store froze. Everyone stared at me. Why wasn’t I wearing a mask? Why was I exposing them to the virus? But I wasn’t ill. And the chances I had COVID were remote. In fact, it takes 40,500 encounters with infected people to get infected and over 6 million encounters to produce 1 death.
Other reports estimate the odds of acquiring COVID-19 coronavirus infection from contact with an infected person is 1 in 3868 (ranges from in 626 to 1 in 31,800) and the odds of dying from COVID-19 is 1 in 19.1 million (ranges from 1 in 3.1 million to 1 in 159 million). These estimates are without citizens taking precautions such as face-masks and social distancing. Face masks are an exercise in futility.
No mandate needed
The masses are now trained, I thought. No mandate is needed now. Outside of drowning themselves in alcohol (home consumption up 500%), which they are doing, they have no other way to handle their fear. It’s not about science, it’s about politics from the side of our overlords and fear when it comes to the masses.
But they wear face masks in surgery, don’t they?
Forget about the lack of science behind face masks and infectious disease. It’s never been about science. Surprisingly, even wearing face masks in surgery has been called a mindless “ritual,” a “sacred cow;”
- …A practice that makes no difference in wound infection rates that has been known since the 1960s;
- …A practice when abandoned actually decreased postoperative wound infections by 36% (from 4.7% to 3.5%);
- …Failed to even contaminate Petri plates placed on the operating table with unmasked personnel just a meter away;
- …And has even undergone scientific scrutiny by the Cochrane Database System Review that concluded “it is unclear whether the wearing of surgical face masks by members of the surgical team has any impact on surgical wound rates.”
Face masks may be a “hail Mary” attempt to self-protect, which makes face masks a religion, not science.
Face masks to handle the anxiety
Here are direct quotes from The New England Journal of Medicine April 1, 2020 on universal face masking to protect against transmission of the COVID-19 Coronavirus:
“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection…
“The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is… minimal….
“…During the care of a patient with unrecognized Covid-19…. A mask alone in this setting will reduce risk only slightly…
“…Universal masking alone is not a panacea….
“The extent of marginal benefit of universal masking over and above these foundational measures is debatable….
“Expanded masking protocols’ greatest contribution may be to reduce the transmission of anxiety.”
This is not the message Americans are hearing.
In lieu of valium mandates, face masks will do.
The news media makes it appear face masks are mandatory (by law), but unless some law has been passed in a State legislature, it is only a guideline.
Health authorities now concede that mandated measures to halt the spread of this mutated virus are only to provide peace of mind — face masks are only an anxiety reliever.
With no vaccine initially available in the early stages of the pandemic, which was announced in March of 2021, the best approach would have been to encourage natural immunity, which has now been found to be superior to immunization by vaccine. But public health agencies are bought off by the vaccine makers.
The main objective should be to limit COVID-19 associated deaths, not cases. Infection results in immunity! Given COVID-19 infection induces mild-to-no symptoms, and infection produces antibodies that may serve to prevent re-infection and further spread of the virus, prevention of cases is counterproductive. But natural immunity is simply ignored and not tabulated in the US. In the US, 95-99% of people who acquire this infection get well on their own.
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